Original Enigma machine on Ebay....

Spit · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:13

Check it out....

HERE

True bit of history :eek:

Nathan · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:16

truely amazing technology at the time

Oliver · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:17

Wow, impressive! :cool:

G-MAN2004 · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:20

Nice. How could you prove that it is genuine? It has had the serial numbers removed.

Defcon5 · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:20

wonder where it was from? a u-boat?

RandomTom · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:20

I think this would be better off in a museum rather than just someone's house, but very nice item to have. :cool:

Yewen · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:22

I would love that.

There are quite a few of them about mind.

What I really really really would love to get my hands on is a Collossus

Visage · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:27

Isnt the 3 rotor one the less secure naval version?

MaxPower · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:35

EUR 13,150.00 for that piece of junk I doubt it can even run Quake.

Flibster · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:36

Visage said:
Isnt the 3 rotor one the less secure naval version?

Wrong way round. Navel version had 4 rotors.

158 million million million combinations :eek:

Simon/~Flibster

KaHn · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:37

Yewen said:
I would love that.

There are quite a few of them about mind.

What I really really really would love to get my hands on is a Collossus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer ?

KaHn

MaxPower · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:37

Flibster said:
158 million million million combinations

That truely is amazing.

Yewen · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:43

KaHn said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer ?

KaHn

That is the one!

I am still sure there is at least one original still in operation.

Flibster · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:53

Yewen said:
That is the one!

I am still sure there is at least one original still in operation.

Afaik - the only one that exists *at Bletchley Park appropriately* is a replica - the originals were destroyed after the war, along with all the designs.

Was rebuilt with the help of some people who built and operated them originally.

Alan Turing is the father of computing imho. Sod what the Americans think.

Simon/~Flibster

chris_r · 30 Mar 2006 at 21:08

laugh at me if you want, but whats the enigma in the liverpool Museum, at the Albert Dock....is there tonnes of these?

Nismo · 30 Mar 2006 at 21:10

How on Earth do you get to be in possesion of something like that in the first place?

KaHn · 30 Mar 2006 at 21:11

Nismo said:
How on Earth do you get to be in possesion of something like that in the first place?

Well we weren't really the most "regular" army, we stole a lot of things from germany.

KaHn

Nismo · 30 Mar 2006 at 21:15

KaHn said:
Well we weren't really the most "regular" army, we stole a lot of things from germany.

KaHn

How come Fritz still has this one then?

nikebee · 30 Mar 2006 at 21:22

Flibster said:
Wrong way round. Navel version had 4 rotors.

158 million million million combinations

Simon/~Flibster

so a 158 trillion combinations then?

benjo plz. · 30 Mar 2006 at 21:24

KaHn said:
we stole a lot of things from germany.

twas the Polish tbh.