One of only 3 "enigma machine" stolen; A piece of ENIAC was up for auction.

From: Sipke de Wal <sipke_at_wxs.nl>
Date: Mon Apr 3 13:01:57 2000

>----- Original Message -----
>From: John Lewczyk <jlewczyk_at_his.com>
>To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
>Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 6:05 AM
>Subject: One of only 3 "enigma machine" stolen; A piece of ENIAC was up for
auction.


>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_698000/698804.stm

>An Enigma machine used by the Nazis to send coded messages during World War
>Two, has been stolen from the code-cracking Station X at Bletchley Park,
>Buckinghamshire. The machine, worth about ?100,000, is one of only three
in
>the world. It was brought to the UK after the war.

>I bet it was somebody on this list who grabbed it! Fess up! ;-)

>I see it as another sign of how serious our hobby is becoming. Its valued
>at 100,000 pounds! I wonder what it will fetch on ebay? ;-)

Also sounds a bit like an April Foolsday Prank (Saturday was the day of the
crime)

Hmmm. If ever on sale at Ebay be prepared to fork out another 100K pounds
for the shipping !

Sipke
Received on Mon Apr 03 2000 - 13:01:57 BST

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