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Hi All

After a great visit to see Charlie at Bletchley Park computer museum with Les and Ricardo. Charlie has graciously allowed me to post and paper written by Charlie on how the German Lorenz Cipher Machine encryption was broken.

You will need your thinking cap on though as its technical.

BTW if you are near Milton Keynes on a day the Museum is open it's well worth a visit. It's a national treasure and needs to be supported.

Thanks Charlie for the paper

A truly special visit! A lot of knowledge structured on a limited base of information and resources, initially mechanical, then electromechanical and finally electronics could make its contribution. This further values the minds that made this evolution, without the help of microcontrollers, and this history can be learned and experienced at the National Museum of Computing. Yes! Experienced because there is an incredible group of people who keep these machines "alive". People like Charles Coultas, who will certainly be worth every minute of your attention.

Ricardo Urio

Thanks Ricardo, very kind of you, glad you enjoyed the day. We are just installing a Ferranti Argus500 which has been lovingly restored.  When any of you visit us, two things:

You will be asked, at the gate of Bletchley Park, where you are going. The answer is The National Museum of Computing not Bletchley Park itself. We live in the grounds of Bletchley Park but are entirely separate from the original Bletchley Park. We are up the hill, over the roundabout.

We are closed to the public on Mondays but I am there most Mondays. So get in touch with me first. Check on our website for opening times: tnmoc.org

Charlie

(My surname is Coultas not Coutas, but when I re-joined the forum a few years ago I had had a couple of glasses of Pinot Gringio and misspelt my surname!)