>>>>> "Marvin" == Marvin Johnston <marvin_at_rain.org> writes:
Marvin> In checking some other stuff, I just ran across a neat site
Marvin> dealing with the ENIGMA CIPHER MACHINES among other antique
Marvin> cipher machines and calculators. The main page site is W1TP
Marvin> TELEGRAPH AND SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT MUSEUMS, and has some
Marvin> pretty interesting stuff on it!
Marvin>
http://w1tp.com/
Neat, thanks!
As happens a lot with Enigma descriptions, you see lots of references
to English work and none to Polish work. This in spite of the fact
that Poles did the original hard part of cracking Enigma, and the
English contribution was really more in mass-producing the process and
tweaking it as the Germans made incremental changes to the Enigma
machines.
The links to the van Verk Enigma-like machine are worth looking at, in
particular her website which shows a bunch of other impressive
mechanical and electronic work.
paul
Received on Mon Apr 05 2004 - 15:42:55 BST