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Bletchley Park code breakers
Just watched a recording of War Factories.
It featured the code breakers of Bletchley Park. After the Enigma came what "we" called Tunny but the Germans called Lorenze. It made Enigma look like a child's toy. What I found fascinating was how "easily" the sequence was spotted. I say easy, it seemed "easy" for the mathematician that saw the sequence, the code eventually broken due to a sloppy transmission by a German soldier. Not just Alan Turing but William Tutte and Tommy Flowers were also geniuses I also thought Colossus was dismantled however it lives. Once covid is "over" this is on my list of places to visit https://www.tnmoc.org/colossus?gclid...SAAEgLcevD_BwE Some TV is very informative macafee2 |
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Yes then in 1952 Turing was "thanked" by being prosecuted for being a homosexual and chemically castrated. The conviction cost him his security clearance meaning he could no longer work as a code breaker at GCHQ. He died in 1954 from cyanide poisoning, it was presumed deliberate but could have been accidental. He was eventually posthumously pardoned in 2013.
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I've been 3 times and it's almost beyond belief what they did. Have a great time. They used to do an entry ticket that was valid for as many visits as you liked in a year. Highly recommended if it's still available. |
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Perhaps Bletchley Park would make a good venue for a future National Meet - as and when circumstances allow.
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That creates another problem, in that if the venue is too interesting, as opposed to convenient, one is torn between supporting the meet or sprinting round exhibition.
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Forgot to add.
There's the museum of computing quite literally just up the road. For those of us of a certain age it's like being a kid again.... I had one of those . Gives an idea of how far things have come . Enjoy. |
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FWIW getting on for 40 years ago I worked in the RAF Uxbridge bunker where the Battle of Britain was controlled from. I was working as a BT internal construction engineer The area is so different nowadays, it is no longer an RAF place.
Worth a visit but when I went last year they were still to open parts of the bunker macafee2 |
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