Tony Sale
Anthony Edgar "Tony" Sale,
Life
He was educated at
Between 1992 and 2007, Sale and volunteers rebuilt a functioning replica of the
Sale and his wife Margaret had three children and seven grandchildren. Margaret continued as a volunteer guide at the museum for many years after Tony's death.
Work
Sale worked with
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 Honorary 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 named Chairman in 1979.[9]
In 1989, Sale was appointed a senior
In 1992, he was Secretary to the newly formed Bletchley Park Trust, later unpaid Museums Director in 1994.[9] In 1993 he started the Colossus Rebuild Project, inaugurated in 1994,[11] to build a functioning replica of the Colossus computer developed and built by Tommy Flowers at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill in 1943.
Sale lectured on wartime code breaking in the UK, Europe and the US. He was technical adviser for the 2001 film Enigma.[12]
Sale's web site, Codes and Ciphers in the Second World War is a source of information on aspects of World War II code breaking. His booklet Colossus 1943–1996[13] outlines the breaking of the German Lorenz cipher and his remarkable rebuilding of the Colossus computer.
Honours
As a result of his Colossus rebuild work,
After his death, the British
In September 2019, Sale was posthumously awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the National Museum of Computing.[19]
References
- ^ Sale, Tony. "Video of Tony Sale talking about rebuilt Colossus 2008-6-19". Retrieved 13 May 2017.
- ^ "Tony Sale obituary". The Guardian. 31 August 2011.
- ^ Colossus – The Rebuild Story, The National Museum of Computing, retrieved 13 May 2017
- ^ a b c Campbell-Kelly, Martin (31 August 2011), "Tony Sale obituary", The Guardian, retrieved 31 August 2011
- ^ "Robot George: early humanoid revived after 45 years". The Daily Telegraph. 22 November 2010. Archived from the original on 24 November 2010. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
- ^ a b "A walk of fame for George the robot". BBC News. BBC. 17 November 2010. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
- ^ a b "Computer conservationist Sale dies". BBC News.
- ^ The Colossus Gallery, The National Museum of Computing, retrieved 13 May 2017
- ^ a b c Tony Sale. "Tony Sale CV". codesandciphers.org.uk. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ^ "Tony Sale on the regeneration of Bletchley Park". Open University. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
- ^ Jagger's at breaking point over code, Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express, 26 August 2001
- ISBN 0-947712-36-4– A slender (20-page) booklet
- Sale, Tony, The Colossus its purpose and operation
- ^ "coltalk_2". codesandciphers.org.uk.
- ^ Nicolle, Lindsay, Whizkids no match for wartime wizards, The Times, 7 May 1997.
- ^ Minutes, Opening Meeting of the 180th Session (2000-2001), RSSA official site
- ^ "Welcome to the Tony Sale award web site". Computer Conservation Society. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ^ "TNMOC Press Release". The National Museum Of Computing. 17 June 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2023.