Harry William Fensom (1921 to 2010) was an English electronic engineer with the General Post Office who worked with Tommy Flowers at Bletchley Park on Colossus, the electronic computer built to help decode encrypted German Lorenz cipher messages during the Second World War. He and colleague Don Horwood reassembled the Mark 1 Colossus prototype at Bletchley Park after its delivery from the Post Office Research Station in January 1944. After the war he designed ERNIE, a machine based on Colossus engineering used to generate the winning numbers for Britain's Premium Bond draw.
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During World War II he worked with Tommy Flowers at Bletchley Park on Colossus, the world's first electronic computer, that helped to decode encrypted German messages using the Lorenz cipher.
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