Royce Williams on Nostr: "Flowers was left in debt after the war after using his own personal funds to build ...
"Flowers was left in debt after the war after using his own personal funds to build Colossus. The government granted him £1,000 payment which did not cover Flowers' personal investment in the equipment; he shared much of the money amongst the staff who had helped him build and test Colossus. Flowers applied for a loan from the Bank of England to build another machine like Colossus but was denied the loan because the bank did not believe that such a machine could work."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_FlowersPublished at
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