[clue-talk] Bletchley Fires up Da "Bombe"

Collins Richey crichey at gmail.com
Thu Sep 7 20:23:57 MDT 2006


On 9/7/06, Jed S. Baer <thag at frii.com> wrote:
> I think this is cool.
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/07/nbletchley07.xml
>
> "With a rumble that turned into a roar, a sound not heard at Bletchley
> Park for more than half a century, the machine that was at the heart of
> Britain's wartime code-breaking triumph began to work again."
>
> It's actually not one of "the" machines, as they were all destroyed. It's
> a re-creation.
>

Super cool. At least the Brits didn't have the equivalent of the ACLU
to oppose intelligence gathering efforts, or we would all be shouting
Sieg Heil!

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.



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