In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

In reply to a post by ian_c:

a cunning ruse to put the Ruskies off the scent

Africans, actually, to whom we sold re-conditioned Enigmas.

Was more about about Lorenz/ Tunny, which the Russians did not know we had broken.

Sorry, didn't realise you were referring to a much earlier post.

Edited by XRaySpeX (Fri 23-Dec-11 19:33:55)

(You seem to be having trouble working out who you are replying to)

That we sold Enigma to African (and other) states is not in dispute.

But Enigma was only the second most important code broken by Bletchley Park and Colossus Mk2 was fundamental to it.

Either way, your original assertion that they were destroyed is not true.

Duh! Has nobody got a GSOH? This all started off as a

That post is certainly irrelevant!

he's a Troll, don't worry.

In reply to a post by billford:

I never actually used Atlas, my work at the time was more involved with reactor experiments with DIDO. First time I really got exposed to computers was when I moved to AWE Aldermaston, with their IBM 360s accessed over a site WAN...

Via ASR33's at 110 baud.

Broadband, what's that?

WAN? we never had a WAN when we got back from the pit after a 23 hour shift we had to run between puters with pieces of paper with 1's and 0's on.

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

Colossus was the machine designed by Tommy Flowers of GPO Research for Bletchley Park to break the Enigma code.

Colossus was used to break the Lorentz cipher, the decoding of enigma was done on the bombes.

Edited by TheHorseman (Fri 23-Dec-11 21:16:34)

In reply to a post by TheHorseman:

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

Colossus was the machine designed by Tommy Flowers of GPO Research for Bletchley Park to break the Enigma code.

Colossus was used to break the Lorentz cipher, the decoding of enigma was done on the bombes.

Designed by Alan Turing.

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