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On 2016-03-17, Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> 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. 
>
> She was quite happy to tell me what a good time she had there.
>
> Steve
>

There was in one of the books, the suggestion that one needed
to be 'someone' to be hired. England at that time, even that a
man called 'Flowers' was downplayed in some of the early histories
because he had a Cockney accent, in spite of him being able to make
 the machines.


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greymaus
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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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