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20-06-11, 10:45
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A bombe !?! aaaahhhh!!
Fascinating thread fellahs, keep the info coming.
Malcolm, pardon my ignorance, GPO stands for? Very knowledgable people our forum members...good show!!
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20-06-11, 10:49
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Check out this site, shows the rebuilt "Bombe" and other goodies at "The Park"
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/cont...whattosee.rhtm Dean
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20-06-11, 11:35
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These are the people who did all telephone, telegraph and most other things to do with communications at the time and were Government owned. 
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20-06-11, 12:47
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The code work was done at Bletchley Park outside London.
A lot of very talented mathematical minds were recruited from civvy street to work on it. My mother was recruited as a math whizz early on in the war and worked there and could not tell my father a thing about it. R
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20-06-11, 12:47
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I'm sticking my neck out here, but I remember reading somewhere there was a commercial version of the enigma machine made in (I think) Czechoslovakia during the 'thirties - even advertised in magazines. It was one of those things that wasn't picked up at the time - but the enigma machine was a derivation of this machine - yet the wartime enigma more spools which increased its 'uncrackability' exponentially... (don't hold this as fact anyone...)
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20-06-11, 13:32
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Tv sbs
Not directly related to this thread . But I am reminded of a great TV series SBS ran years ago called " THE RED ORCHESTRA" It was a drama series all about the Russian/Soviet spy network within NAZI Germany.
The Reds were amazing spies. And during WW2, they had a famous woman spy in the UK who sent morse code mesages back to the USSR via a home made transmitter . She did it for many years , into the cold war era . Mike
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20-06-11, 14:09
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Aha! Found this on a website - the commercial version was apparently German - "The commercial enigma was exhibited at a couple of trade shows during 1923 but soon attracted the interest of the German military. The result was the withdrawal from the market of the enigma machine which then continued to be produced and refined for military use."
Like Monica Lewinski - close but no cigar....   Post Script - Robin Craig : amazing!
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20-06-11, 23:29
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yes GPO did indeed build the bombe which I believe was the first computer..ALAN TURING was a gifted mathimitician not an engineer...also one of my late neighbours Capt Joe Baker-Cresswell was the chap who's destroyer captured the first U-boat enigma machine although he did loose two of his sailors when the sub sank....his son was not best pleased with the USA film of there version of capture of U-Boat Enigma!hope this helps regards malcolm PS a close friend of mine from the R/Sigs has a good collection of Enigma items..he's located in the Western Isles
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21-06-11, 02:30
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Thinking about it a bit, I seem to recall sometime in the late 1970's or early 1980's a limited quantity of surplus commercial Enigma machines showing up for sale out of Europe They were ex-Swiss or Swedish and may have had something to do with the banking sector. There were ads in a couple of military history type magazines for a while and then they disappeared. Interesting bit of kit, but very limited Canadian connection. Now a surplus Bombe on the other hand...
David
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