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| From | Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: enigma |
| Date | 2016-03-17 22:23 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <dl0p3oFrjapU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <slrnneld8m.24a.mausg@Smaus.org> <l0elebtcjgt1mn0g61i9ammkt9la6mvquk@4ax.com> |
On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:07:17 +0000, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote: > On 17 Mar 2016 13:46:00 GMT, mausg@mail.com wrote: > >>t downloaded "Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret", (and since >>realized that its 9 years old), fairly good explanation of the >>codebreakers, and how the operation was more than an Enigma breaking >>thing, Good book. > > My mother in law worked at Bletchley park, mainly punching holes in > paper tape. The work was so secure that most of the people who worked > there didn't know what they were doing! Decades later, when all the > secrets were in the public domain, my mother in law still would not talk > about the work. I visited Bletchley Park a littel while ago (I've been several times, and the National Museum of Computing is on the same site). I was told of an elderly couple who'd been doing their 'bucket list', one item on which was a visit to Bletchley Park. They did 'the tour', one component of which was a visit to Hut 11 to see a (working) replica of a 'bombe'. The volunteer gave her usual talk, but was interrupted by the wife of said couple who basically said she was explaining it wrongly. On being challenged, she said that she'd worked there! Her husband was dumbfounded. "But we met in 1846 and you never told me", he said". She replied "Of course not, it was a secret". "I worked here, too", he said. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
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enigma mausg@mail.com - 2016-03-17 13:46 +0000
Re: enigma Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2016-03-17 14:07 +0000
Re: enigma philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-03-17 10:00 -0500
Re: enigma mausg@mail.com - 2016-03-17 15:29 +0000
Re: enigma Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-03-17 22:23 +0000
Re: enigma Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2016-03-17 21:12 -0500
Re: enigma mausg@mail.com - 2016-03-18 12:39 +0000
Re: enigma scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-03-18 13:15 +0000
Re: enigma Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-03-18 13:30 +0000
Re: enigma Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-03-18 15:39 +0000
Re: enigma Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-03-18 08:26 -0600
Re: enigma Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-03-18 18:26 +0000
Re: enigma "Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net> - 2016-03-18 19:00 -0400
Re: enigma Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-03-18 17:19 -0700
Re: enigma Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-03-18 17:27 -0700
Re: enigma Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-18 17:47 -0700
Re: enigma JimP. <blue@cwahi.net> - 2016-03-18 20:04 -0500
Re: enigma Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-03-18 21:28 -0600
Re: enigma hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-03-19 11:14 -0700
Re: enigma Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2016-03-20 09:02 +0000
Re: enigma Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-18 17:47 -0700
Re: enigma JimP. <blue@cwahi.net> - 2016-03-18 20:06 -0500
Re: enigma mausg@mail.com - 2016-03-19 11:01 +0000
Re: enigma "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-03-19 10:06 -0400
Re: enigma Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-03-19 16:17 +0100
Re: enigma greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2016-03-19 17:45 +0000
Re: enigma "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-03-19 14:00 -0400
Re: enigma sidd@situ.com (sidd) - 2016-03-19 15:48 -0400
Re: enigma Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-03-19 15:10 +0000
Re: enigma Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-03-19 12:31 -0500
Re: enigma Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-19 07:28 -0700
Re: enigma cb@elaine.df.lth.se (Christian Brunschen) - 2016-03-19 18:05 +0000
Re: enigma Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> - 2016-03-21 13:56 -0500
Re: enigma Andy Burns <feb2017-usenet@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2016-03-21 19:47 +0000
Re: enigma "capek@ieee.org <Peter Capek>" <peter.capek@gmail.com> - 2016-03-20 23:16 -0700
Re: enigma Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-03-21 05:55 -0700
Re: enigma JimP. <blue@cwahi.net> - 2016-03-21 12:07 -0500
Re: enigma Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-21 13:51 -0700
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