Enigma vs modern laptop
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DaveS
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Re: Enigma vs modern laptop
Not sure how it compares with 'puters, but the Bowmore Enigma 12 yo is my current favourite airport buy at £43.98 for 2 litres...
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Re: Enigma vs modern laptop
I saw something on telly years ago, well maybe 5 yreas ago, and it was saying how good the Bletchley Park machine was to crack the code in <24 hrs. Ok they had a good guess at some of the settings but it was cogs and valves.
The top spec PC of the time would have taken a couple of weeks IIRC, certainly too long. Although the modern PC could do many more computations per second, it's a jack of all trades so isn't as eficient as the old jobbie.
The Bletchley machine could only do one job, but it did it rather well considering.
The top spec PC of the time would have taken a couple of weeks IIRC, certainly too long. Although the modern PC could do many more computations per second, it's a jack of all trades so isn't as eficient as the old jobbie.
The Bletchley machine could only do one job, but it did it rather well considering.
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Re: Enigma vs modern laptop
There is a rather nice little piece in this weekend's FT about Post Office engineer Tommy Flowers, who created the Collossus computer in January 1944 that was used, post-Enigma, at Bletchley Park to crack enemy codes.
Link = http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8a94a76c-b3ac ... ab49a.html.
Link = http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8a94a76c-b3ac ... ab49a.html.