Re: Press release

Steve and all others who are interested.

The announcement is basically correct but was made by both parties 
without our Bombe Rebuild team's knowledge or involvement. Therefore the 
timing is not what our team would have wished for.

It is slightly premature and has somewhat upset the timing of the 
announcement we had intended to make in the near future.

The current position is that we now have nothing of any significance 
missing to start limited system testing.

I hasten to add that this will initially be using just one bank of the 
three. What this means is that we will use one set of drums (5 x 12) on 
one menu through to one set of 26 sense relays. This means that when 
commissioned the machine will be capable of running real work albeit 
only one wheel order at a time. The rest of the sense relays are well on 
the way to being complete and might all be fitted in about 2 months 
time. A second bank of drums is also close to completion but the full 
compliment is not expected until well into 2006. However by restricting 
the wheel order combinations full three bank running should be possible 
in the late spring of next year.

In addition the new checking machine is well advanced and should be 
available when required to check genuine stops.

Our original intention was to get to the point where any remaining small 
shortages were sorted out and initial adjustments had been completed 
before 'telling the world'. Then we could say that full system testing, 
as I say on just one bank, has genuinely started. It is hard to predict 
when this will be but it is only weeks away. When we do reach this point 
I will let people know and soon after, hopefully, I will have time to 
bring out WEB site fully up to date.

Regards to all

>On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 23:34, Tony Sale wrote:
>> All, Good News. "The Bletchley Park Trust and Codes and Ciphers Heritage
>> Trust working together"
>> see News on www.bletchleypark.org.uk and
>> www.bletchleyparkheritage.org.uk
>>
>> Also Codes and Ciphers Heritage Trust now has Charities Aid Foundation
>> (CAF) agreement for US tax relief for US donors.
>> email me for details
>> regards--
>> Tony Sale
>
>
>Nice to hear that the various parties at modern BP are starting to work
>together again.
>
>The web page was interesting. By implication John Harper and his team
>are "close" to getting their bombe working are they? I looked at the
>Bombe Rebuild webpage recently, but it hadn't been updated since 2003.
>
>I was wondering how they were getting on.
>
>Steve

-- 
John Harper