possibly OT: Enigma Cypher machine on e-bay.

From: Stan Barr <stanb_at_dial.pipex.com>
Date: Mon Mar 10 08:42:00 2003

Hi,

"Adrian Vickers" <adrian.vickers_at_blue-edged.com> said:

> > From: Joe [mailto:rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com]
> >
> > >I wonder how many are out there in private (non government) hands.
> > >
> > I doubt there are any still in governement hands except
> > perhaps in museums. But stop and think for a moment, every
> > unit of the German army, air force, navy and even railroad
> > police had one during WW II. They must have made tens if not
> > handreds of thousands of these! And that's not including the
> > ones that were probably used by Germany's allies.
>
> Absoulutely. Now, a /real/ rarity would be a 4-rotor U-boat cipher; of
> which probably only hundreds were made, and most will be quitely rusting
> & rotting at the bottom of the ocean...

We have a salvaged U-Boat here on Merseyside, not far from Adrian's
famous shed. I wonder what happened to the Enigma machine??


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Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb_at_dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Received on Mon Mar 10 2003 - 08:42:00 GMT

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