Re: The Bombe Rebuild is now working

On 19/7/2007, "John Harper - Bombe Rebuild Project"
<bombe-oQW5sZKyLSBA672l+npqE7mpYI/[email protected]> wrote:

>The Bombe Rebuild at Bletchley Park is now capable of reliably repeating
>real jobs as originally carried out in W.W.II.

As an attendee of the BCS@50 day last week, I was very impressed with
seeing the Bombe working.  It is an amazing piece of kit.

I have a few random photos from the day at:
http://flickr.com/photos/ljw/sets/72157600782178592/
including some of the Bombe.

If anyone has any comments or corrections for my captions, feel free to
leave a comment or mail me.

I hadn't realised until then that it was possible to run multiple wheel
orders simultaneously.  It seems there is provision for up to 4 menus,
but there are only 3 diagonal boards - am I missing something here?

Thanks to everyone involved in the Bombe project.

Lawrence