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Harry Fensom
Harry Fensom (4 February 1921 — 1 November 2010) was a British electronics engineer with the
General Post Office (GPO)
at Dollis Hill (
UK
). During
World War II (WWII)
he worked with
Tommy Flowers
on
Colossus
— the world's first electronic computer — that was used at
Bletchley Park
to break the German
Lorenz SZ-40 cipher machine
. After the war, he developed random number generator ERNIE. After his retirement in 1974, he assisted
Tony Sale
in the rebuild of
Colossus
.
References
Wikipedia,
Harry Fensom
Visited 15 January 2024.
Jim Fensom,
Harry Fensom Obituary
The Guardian, 8 November 2010.
Spartacus,
Harry Fensom
Visited 15 january 2024.
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