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PCW pages from the archives

Looking back at the beginning

The attached PDF entitled 'colossus2' is an article from the December 1978 issue of PCW about the Colossus computer.

The PDF entitled 'retro' is an article from 2003 when Clive Akass spoke to Sir Maurice Wilkes.

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