A Short History of Computers
The World's first electronic computer
The world's first practical digital information processing machine was Colossus built by Tommy Flowers of The Post Office research department and installed at Bletchley Park in December 1943. This was the world's first electronic computer and was used to crack German codes during the Second World War. It's existence was kept Secret until the 1970s.
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The World's first Business Computer
Did you know that the first business computer was designed and built from scratch by a British catering company: J. Lyons and Company best known for it's tea shops and cakes.
The computer in your mobile phone
ARM processors are used extensively in consumer electronics such as the majority of mobile phones, digital media players, electronic games , PDAs etc. They account for approximately 90% of all embedded 32bit Risc processors. ARM was developed by ARM Holdings of Cambridge and was originally used in the Acorn Archimedes, the successor to the BBC Micro.
Britain at the forefront of Computer technology..