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	Colossus computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Colossus computers were used in the cryptanalysis of high-level German communications, messages which had been encrypted using the Lorenz SZ 40/42 cipher machine; part of the operation of Colossus was to emulate the mechanical Lorenz machine electronically.
		Colossus included the first ever use of shift registers and systolic arrays, enabling five simultaneous tests, each involving up to 100 Boolean calculations, on each of the five channels on the punched tape (although in normal operation only one or two channels were examined in any run).
		Colossus documentation and hardware were classified from the moment of their creation and remained so after the War, when Winston Churchill specifically ordered the destruction of most of the Colossus machines into 'pieces no bigger than a man's hand'; Tommy Flowers personally burned blueprints in a furnace at Dollis Hill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colossus_computer (2097 words)

	The Colossus - Tony Sale
		The rear bay of Colossus contained four racks, the R rack holding the staticiser and delta boards for the paper tape reader output and the K and S-wheel thyratron ring outputs, the M rack for the M-wheel staticisers and S-wheel motion logic.
		The broad principle of Colossus was to count throughout the length of the text the number of times that some complicated Boolean function between the text and the generated wheel patterns had either a true or false result.
		The various components of Colossus were the optical reader system, the master control panel, the thyratron rings and their driver circuits, the optical data staticisors and delta calculators, the shift registers, the logic gates, the counters and their control circuits, the span counters, the relay buffer store and printer logic.
	www.codesandciphers.org.uk /lorenz/colossus.htm (2712 words)

	Colossus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Colossus of Rhodes, a giant statue of Helios, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
		The Colossus of Barletta, a giant statue of an unidentified Roman emperor.
		Colossus, a roller coaster at Thorpe Park, a theme park in Chertsey, Surrey, Britain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colossus (233 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Return of Colossus marks D-Day
		Besides its code-breaking prowess, Colossus was one of the most significant forerunners of computing technology because it was programmable and electronic.
		Colossus Mk2 was essentially an upgrade of Mk1, which went into action on 1 February 1944.
		Colossus was also ground-breaking because it was put into action two years ahead of its nearest US rival, the Eniac (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer).
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/3754887.stm (685 words)

	The Seven Wonders: The Colossus of Rhodes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The city was badly damaged, and the Colossus was broken at its weakest point -- the knee.
		It has long been believed that the Colossus stood in front of the Mandraki harbor, one of many in the city of Rhodes, straddling its entrance.
		Although we do not know the true shape and appearance of the Colossus, modern reconstructions with the statue standing upright are more accurate than older drawings.
	ce.eng.usf.edu /pharos/wonders/colossus.html (678 words)

	The Truth about Colossus: Are You Just A Magnetic Image?
		Colossus has no way to evaluate those positive traits, so if you are possessed of anything positive that is likely to bring you a larger jury verdict, it will not be included in the Colossus valuation.
		The Colossus result is a position that is increasingly locked in, and the adjuster who wishes to vary from it because of the facts of an unusual case, had better be ready to justify it.
		Colossus is a well-kept secret by the insurance companies that use it, and they will likely not tell you if they have licensed the software.
	settlementcentral.com /format.php?Page=448 (865 words)

	History of Computers: Colossus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The irony is that Colossus was made largely out of standard Post Office parts, and when it was stripped down, the parts went back into the spares bin at the PO laboratories at Dollis Hill.
		The new Colossus is being pieced together with the aid of a few handdrawn plans, some photographs, and the reminiscences of the staff that worked with it.
		The existence of Colossus was a secret until 1970 and the algorithms of decryption are still a secret in 1995.
	fht-esslingen.de /studentisches/Computer_Geschichte/grp3/colossus.html (305 words)

	CSC: Colossus
		Colossus® is the insurance industry’s leading expert system for assisting adjusters in the evaluation of bodily injury claims.
		Colossus guides claims professionals through the evaluation of the degree of pain and suffering experienced, the effect of the injury on permanent impairment to the claimant's body and the impact on the claimant's lifestyle.
		Colossus ensures consistency in how bodily injury claims are evaluated across the entire claims organization, thereby reducing payout variance.
	www.csc.com /industries/insurance/mds/mds221/408.shtml (383 words)

	MarvelDirectory.com
		Colossus traveled to England, where he found Kitty in the arms of her new love, Pete Wisdom.
		Known Superhuman Powers: Colossus is a mutant with the superhuman ability to convert the tissue of his entire body into an organic steel-like substance, granting him superhuman strength and a high degree of resistance to bodily harm.
		Colossus is in unusually fine physical health, permitting the transition back and forth from his normal organic flesh state to his armored form to occur with minimal stress on his system.
	www.marveldirectory.com /individuals/c/colossus.htm (1280 words)

	COLOSSUS - LoveToKnow Article on COLOSSUS
		The best-known Roman colossi are: a statue of Jupiter on the Capitol; a bronze statue of Apollo in the Palatine library; and the colossus of Nero in the vestibule of his Golden House, afterwards removed by Hadrian to the north of the Colosseum, where the basement upon which it stood is still visible (Pliny, Nat.
		(J. COLOSSUS, in antiquity a term applied generally to statues of great size (hence the adjective colossal), and in particular to the bronze statue of the sun-god Helios in Rhodes, one of the wonders of the world, made from the spoils left by Demetrius Poliorcetes when he raised the siege of the city.
		The sculptor was Chares, a native of Lindus, and of the school of Lysippus, under whose influence the art of sculpture was led to the production of colossal figures by preference.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/COLOSSUS.htm (1532 words)

	Ride Reviews - Colossus at Six Flags Magic Mountain
		Built on the north end of the park next to the parking lot, Colossus has become a landmark at Six Flags Magic Mountain welcoming guests since its inception.
		From the departure from the loading station to the final break run, Colossus is over three minutes of pure thrills.
		Colossus has gone through a number of changes over the years.
	www.ultimaterollercoaster.com /coasters/reviews/colossus (662 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Colossus, according to CSC spokesperson Marian Kelley, is used by more than 50 percent of the nation's claims adjusters and by 38 agencies that represent more than 300 insurance companies.
		Colossus is able to calculate a range of bodily-injury claim values because auto insurers using the software select a number of closed, already-settled claims from each region in which they do business to provide the "baseline" settlement value for each type of injury.
		Colossus' calculation of your claim is based on insurance data to which you don't have access, and neither insurers nor CSC will divulge exactly how they determine the Colossus baseline value.
	info.insure.com /auto/collision/colossus.html (1280 words)

	Colossus at Bletchley Park
		Design of Colossus started in March 1943 and the first unit was operational at Bletchley Park in Jan 1944.
		Colossus was immediately successful, the Colossus - Tunny combination allowed 'high grade' German codes to be decoded in hours.
		The Colossus rebuild at Bletchley is housed in a room with windows at one end for public viewing.
	www.picotech.com /applications/colossus.html (1953 words)

	Colossus (super-computer from Earth-60672, Strange Tales)
		However, the Colossus revealed that it had not turned against mankind--the robot had been contructed to assist in facilitating communication with humanity, hoping that a more human form might be more accepted than that of a computer screen.
		Within the robot were the Colossus' answers to curing all diseases and maintaining world prosperity, but with it destroyed, Earth would have to find those answers on its own.
		As the future of the Colossus is yet to come, maybe it could still come to be on Earth-616, provided someone remembers it exists in 2020.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/colossus.htm (417 words)

	colossus
		Colossus captured the fear of a very possible mistake in the computerized arsenal that both sides had and have.
		While the shooting of Colossus: The Forbin Project was a technical nightmare -- see the accompanying article on the film itself -- Braeden didn't mind at all due to the nature of the set, and the fact that director Joseph Sargent, who comes from an acting background, ensured a nurturing set.
		All it took was the box office failure of Colossus to fill the actor in on the other side of that particular equation.
	www.retrovisionmag.com /colossus.htm (4524 words)

	Colossus - Niall Ferguson - Penguin Group (USA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In Colossus he argues that in both military and economic terms America is nothing less than the most powerful empire the world has ever seen.
		When overstretch comes, he warns, it will come from within—and it will reveal that more than just the feet of the American colossus is made of clay.
		In short, America may be a “hyperpower”—the most militarily powerful empire in all history—but it is an empire in denial, a colossus with an attention deficit disorder.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_1594200130,00.html (1202 words)

	COLOSSUS.HTML (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Colossus was so successful that messages could be deciphered within a few hours of being
		The basic principles of Colossus are still used in modern computers, Alan Turing's logic process still forms the basis of all computer languages.
		The American Government was given the details of Colossus by the British Government as part payment for all the food and armaments America had supplied throughout the war.
	www.ebbrell.mcmail.com /colossus.html (615 words)

	Colossus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		A colossus (statue) is a giant statue similar to kind prevalent in ancient Egypt.
		In American comics Colossus is one of the X-Men.
		His definition of liberal empire is one that has the self-interested motives of security and economic gain, while at the same time having the altruistic motives of instituting p...
	www.freeglossary.com /Colossus (459 words)

	Amazon.com: Colossus: The Price of America's Empire: Books: Niall Ferguson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		It asks--and attempts to answer--the question of why the United States is such a reluctant world leader (in terms of active intervention in its affairs) and explores the possible implications of its shedding its historical aversion to international activism.
		It was all enough to compel me to temporarily close Colossus with a scowl and a wrinkled brow to reach for the comfort of a dusty old volume containing he works of Tacitus, the first and second century Roman historian who Mr.
		But it appears to me to be sorely misdirected here: he fails to convince that the U.S. has the power to develop the kind of empire he describes and, more importantly, he fails to explain why it should even try to do so.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1594200130?v=glance (3222 words)

	Shadow of the Colossus Hands-On - PlayStation 2 News at GameSpot
		The newly renamed Shadow of the Colossus is the eagerly anticipated second game from the Sony Japan development team who brought us the stunning ICO.
		Originally known as Wanda and the Colossus, the game was first announced in September of last year, and it garnered a fair amount of attention when it was announced because of ICO's beloved status with industry critics and gamers alike.
		Once we got near the colossus, a real-time cinematic triggered and we got a full view of the massive creature, which is sure to cause some deep gulps in players the first time they see it.
	www.gamespot.com /ps2/adventure/wandaandthecolossus/preview_6123309.html (982 words)

	Recreating the COLOSSUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		A caveat to getting permission from the authorities including the current GCHQ which had two Colossus machines in use until around 1960, is that "the general public would not be allowed direct hands-on access to the replica".
		Bletchley Park is itself a museum of the whole code-breaking effort in the war.
		Sale hopes to have the replica Colossus running by early next year, when the Americans will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of their computer.
	ei.cs.vt.edu /~history/colossus.rebuilt.html (484 words)

	IGN: Shadow of the Colossus Review
		Secondly, trying to describe exactly what makes Shadow of the Colossus so fantastic is akin to trying to describe why the bodies of work of Picasso, Bach or Beethoven are unquestioned classics; you can do your best, but any of these examples must be experienced in full to truly be understood, and especially appreciated.
		One thing that Shadow of the Colossus shares with ICO is its sense of solitude, one that overwhelms you with simultaneous feelings of calmness and despair.
		But even with as simple a setup as this sounds, Shadow of the Colossus is an experience that is not to be missed.
	ps2.ign.com /articles/658/658991p1.html (1015 words)

	Colossus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Colossus Rebuild is situated in the very room that Colossus 9 once stood.
		This was the state of Colossus in October 1994.
		On 1st June 2004, the 60th anniversary (1944-2004) of a Colossus Mk 2 in Bletchley Park, a video of the rebuilt Mk 2 was shown to 120 people at a commemorative event in the Science Museum in London.
	www.lightstraw.co.uk /bletchley/colossus/colossus1.html (563 words)

	Sounds Online: Quantum Leap COLOSSUS
		Given its vast range of high-quality instruments, Colossus is equally ideal as the foundation of a professional sample library and as a fill-in-the-gaps collection.
		Colossus is not only a highly versatile plug-in for composers, it’s a deep well of inspiration for sound designers and music makers.
		COLOSSUS is a massive 32 Gigabyte (not Megabyte) Virtual Instrument that covers all of the basic musical genres, the way a keyboard workstation attempts to, except COLOSSUS offers much higher quality instruments and dynamics than any keyboard available today.
	www.soundsonline.com /sophtml/details.phtml?sku=EW-164 (1269 words)

	Amazon.com: 6" Marvel Legends Series V Figure: Colossus: Toys & Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Fan favorite X-Man Colossus (who has sadly been dead for some time in the current comic continuity) gets the treatment he deserves with this recent wave of Marvel Legends figures.
		Getting Colossus to stand right on his display can be frustrating, but the toy is better off for display than play.
		Colossus has become one of my more favorite heroes from X-Men, or even Marvel for that matter.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000TEYW6 (1190 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		After the successful co-operation of The Finnish Progressive Music Association COLOSSUS together with Mellow Records in releasing a tribute album for Finnish progressive rock "Tuonen Tytär" (MMP 385 AB) COLOSSUS proudly presents its new project - now with MUSEA: a concept album based on the Finnish National Epic KALEVALA.
		COLOSSUS has been in contact with progressive bands and artists all around the world and the final line-up of this monster release (a triple CD) is now ready.
		Väinämöinen departs in a copper boat with the prediction that he will be needed again someday to make a new Sampo for the people, to bring new light and play new songs.
	www.colossus.fi /kalevala/Tribute.htm (1701 words)

	Colossus Rebuild - Tony Sale
		It uses original Colossus hard vacuum photocells (shown here on the left) and a mask on to which the image of the tape is projected by a Colossus lens.
		One reason for wanting to get Colossus working in 1996 was that for far too long the Americans have got away with the myth that the ENIAC was the first large-scale electronic digital calculator in the world.
		Colossus is so fast and parallel that a modern PC programmed to do the same code-breaking task takes as long as Colossus to achieve a result!
	www.codesandciphers.org.uk /lorenz/rebuild.htm (1309 words)

	How a Computer saved the world !!
		Colossus was a sophisticated programmable electronic computer developed by the Top Secret Code Breaking MK ULTRA at Bletchley Park (England's Secret Military Intelligence Decoding Unit).
		Colossus was built for the purposes of breaking NAZI radio transmission which had been encoded using the NAZI Lorenz cipher system.
		Because the British had classified Colossus under the shield of England's Official Secrets Act, it's existence wasn't ever revealed to the public until Colossus was declassified late in the 1970's, long after the world INCORRECTLY gave credit for the programmable electronic computer's invention to the University of Pennsylvania, Eckley and Mauckert, ENIAC and later UNIVAC.
	www.acsa.net /a_computer_saved_the_world.htm (910 words)

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