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The computer that helped win World War II


The computer that helped win World War II One summer day in 1941, a British radio operator was monitoring German military frequencies and heard something unexpected in her headphones. A later report called it โ€œstrange new music.โ€ Sounding unlike the familiar Morse dit-dit-dah of enciphered messages sent over the German Enigma network, the โ€œnew musicโ€ was a rhythmic warble of binary teletype code being transmitted at [โ€ฆ].


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