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BLETCHLEY PARK TRUST FOUNDER PASSES AWAY
INSPIRATIONAL:Tony Sale, left,was a founderof the BletchleyPark Trust andinstrumental inthe successfulrebuild ofColossus - theworld's firstoperationalcomputer
Tributes paid to aColossus of a manTRIBUTES have been paid tovisionary computer pioneerTony Sale who has died, aged80.Mr Sale worked at Bletchley
Park and led the team thatrebuilt Colossus, the world'sfirst modern computer.During the war the original
Colossus 'computers hadbeen designed and built todecipher the Lorenz-encryptedmessages of the German HighCommand.The successful decryption of
these messages is credited withshortening the war by manymonths and saving thousandsof lives.Working with small
fragments of information, Mr
Sale, also a founder member ofthe Bletchley Park Trust, andhis team successfully rebuilt afunctioning Colossus, an eventthat was celebrated in 2007withthe Colossus Cipher Challengeand the official opening ofThe National Museum ofComputing. Today, the rebuiltColossus is a centrepiece of themuseum.Andy Clark, chairman of
The National Museum ofComputing trustees, paidtribute to his achievements.He said: "Tony's contributionsto The National Museumof Computing have beenimmense and I am quite surethat without his remarkabletalents, enthusiasm, and drive,
the museum would not havecome into existence."The rebuilding of a
functioning Colossus MK IT,Tony's homage to the wartimecodebreakers of the Lorenzcipher at Bletchley Park, issuch a remarkable piece ofwork that it will forever be themodel of excellence to whichthe museum aspires."Tony Sale's passing is a
tremendous loss to us all ona personal and professionalbasis."In July this year, Mr Sale
was introduced to The Queenwho had specifically asked tosee the Colossus rebuild onher visit to Bletchley Park tohonour wartime veterans.
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Citizen Newspaper, 1/9/2011