BBC News: Bombe rebuild to be launched to the public
Matt R <[email protected]>
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BBC news article today: -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5319126.stm "World War II veterans are preparing to show the public how they cracked the Nazi Enigma codes for the first time since VE Day in 1945...John Harper, who led the project, said it took so long because there were `so many parts to it'" `The whole thing was to build it as authentically as possible - so we were very lucky that GCHQ provided us quite a few drawings of individual parts' `The difficulty was that we couldn't get any assembly drawings so we had to re-create those.'... The project will be launched to the public at the Churchill and Enigma Reunion weekend on 23 and 24 September." Many congratulations to John Harper and his team. Thanks for bringing this stuff back to life. -- Matt P.S. (I'm planning to be at BP that weekend. If anyone else on the list will be there, let me know: it'd be fun to say hello) Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto Blog: http://cipher-text.blogspot.com ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html