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| From | mausg@mail.com |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: enigma |
| Date | 2016-03-18 12:39 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <slrnnenton.1sf.mausg@Smaus.org> (permalink) |
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On 2016-03-17, Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> wrote:
> 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",
^^^^ :) Babbage?
> he said". She replied "Of course not, it was a secret".
>
> "I worked here, too", he said.
>
>
>
I am told that couples that work in GCHQ or with the NSA (really, same
place) aare forbidden to talk of their work, even at home
--
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
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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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