Colossus

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Colossus Mk2, a wartime code-breaker hailed as one of the first electronic computers, has been rebuilt and reunited with Bletchley Park veterans.!

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Well they didn't disasemble them all but they had a good reason to keep them secret. During the war the British and Americans never bothered to tell the Russians where they were getting all this inteligence from. After the war the Russians still believed that the ENIGMA and Lorenz cypher machines were unbreakable and so they took them to use themselves.

British inteligence kept a couple of Colossi and a few Bombes(sp?)(Enigma codebreaking machines) and spent the next 10 years reading Russian military trafic and sending a copy across the Atlantic.