Like the first-ever sales brochure for an electronic digital computer, put out in 1947.

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First switched on in 1943, Colossus is now acknowledged as being the world's first electronic, digital computer.

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World War II gave us not only the digital electronic computer, but also, thanks to radar and microwave technology, modern telecommunications.

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