Anthony Edgar Sale (or Tony Sale) led the construction of a Colossus computer replica, completed in 2007. He was part of the group that started the Computer Conservation Society in 1989 and has been associated with the Bletchley Park Trust since 1992. Tony Sale has had careers in the Royal Air Force, the Marconi Research Laboratories and MI5.

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  • Anthony Edgar Sale (or Tony Sale) led the construction of a Colossus computer replica, completed in 2007. He was part of the group that started the Computer Conservation Society in 1989 and has been associated with the Bletchley Park Trust since 1992. Tony Sale has had careers in the Royal Air Force, the Marconi Research Laboratories and MI5. He ran a computer software company for 12 years, has been Technical Director of the British Computer Society and managed the Computer Restoration Project at the Science Museum in London. In 1991, he joined the campaign to save Bletchley Park from housing development. In 1992 he was Secretary to the newly formed Bletchley Park Trust, later a Trustee and Museums Director until 1999. In 1993 he started the Colossus Rebuild Project to rebuild the Colossus computer developed at Dollis Hill in 1943 for Bletchley Park. As a result of his Colossus rebuild work, he was awarded the Comdex IT Personality of the Year for 1998. He also received the 2000 Royal Society of Scotland Silver Medal. Soon after becoming interested in computers, he joined the British Computer Society (BCS) in 1965 as Associate Member, being elected to Member in 1967, Fellow in 1988 and Hon. Fellow in 1996. He was elected to the Council of the BCS for the period 1967-70. In 1965 was a founder member of the Bedfordshire Branch of the BCS and was chairman in 1979. Tony Sale has lectured on wartime code breaking in the UK, Europe and the USA. He was Technical Advisor to Mick Jagger’s 2001 film ‘Enigma’. His web site, www. codesandciphers. org. uk is a source of information on aspects of World War II code breaking. His booklet ‘Colossus 1943 - 1996’ describes the breaking of the German Lorenz cipher and his rebuild of the Colossus computer.
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  • Anthony Edgar Sale (or Tony Sale) led the construction of a Colossus computer replica, completed in 2007. He was part of the group that started the Computer Conservation Society in 1989 and has been associated with the Bletchley Park Trust since 1992. Tony Sale has had careers in the Royal Air Force, the Marconi Research Laboratories and MI5.
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