Anthony Sale

Anthony Sale

Anthony Edgar Sale (or Tony Sale) (born 30 January 1931) is popularly known for leading the rebuilding of the Colossus computer which was completed in 2007.

He also 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 his own 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 Medaldubious. 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 appeared on television all over the world and has lectured widely 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 recognised as a major source of information on all 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.

External links

* [http://www.codesandciphers.co.uk/aescv.htm CV]
* [http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/electricalengineering/newsarchive/alecreeves Biography by Imperial College]
* [http://www.codesandciphers.co.uk/index.htm His website]


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