From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 11:42:40 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] OT: Happy birthday, Tommy Flowers! Message-ID: Tommy Flowers MBE was born on this day in 1905; an electrical and mechanical engineer, he designed Colossus, arguably the world's first electronic computer, which was used to break the German "Lorenz" high-level cipher (not Enigma, as some think). -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."