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Old 6th Apr 2019, 8:38 pm   #1
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The WW2 codebreaking machine is on display at Bletchley: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...herts-47813994
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Is the fact that it's working something new? I've seen it, or its twin whenever I've been to BP.
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Googling for it doesn't really answer the question. Clearly it has been under construction for the best part of twenty years. Maybe it has only recently been completed into working condition?
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I didn't know anything about this early version, pre-dating the later work re code breaking! Today's Observer has a story about Eric Jones whose management and organisational skills are equated with the technical input from Turing and others. He was the "King of Calm" in hut 3 managing the people and processing the information decoded. "He was not from a mathematical or cryptographic background-it was his quick thinking and people skills that were really important". It's thought that he learned these in his father's Textile Mill at Macclesfield. The article ["Revealed;the unsung D-Day hero whose role at Bletchley was as vital as Alan Turing's"] is based on a book written by BP's Research Historian David Kenyon 'Bletchley Park and D Day'. There's a claim that it's "the first one out on the subject since 19792 but I doubt that can be true

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Should anyone be interested there is a Heath Robinson Museum in Pinner, where he lived.

https://www.heathrobinsonmuseum.org/

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Thanks Mike. My son and family now live at Edgeware [5 miles] so that will be very handy!

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