possibly OT: Enigma Cypher machine on e-bay.

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Tue Mar 11 09:29:00 2003

I think there were also the original commercial versions made from the
mid-1920's on.

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

> >From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
>
> >At 11:00 PM 3/7/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >>>Damm! Now there's something that you don't see everyday!
> >>
> >>I wonder how many are out there in private (non government) hands.
> >>
> >>I have seen one, in the D-Day Museum in New Orleans.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Hi
> It is most likely that this is one of the ones that
> was made after the war. Quite a few of these were made
> for other governments after the war. You'll note that
> he never said that this one was used during the war
> or mentioned a manufacture date.
> Dwight
>

M. K. Peirce

Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island

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