29 Mar 20:58
'BOMBE-Rebuild' article & photos in Mail on Sunday
29th March 2009 The Wider View : Nazi codebreaker which shortened the Second World War by two years ------------------------------------------------------------------ By Mail On Sunday Reporter The rows of silver dials and tangle of scarlet wires look more like a telephone exchange. But this is the inside of the Turing Bombe, the part-electronic, part-mechanical code-breaking machine and forerunner of the modern computer, which cracked 3,000 messages a day sent on Nazi Enigma machines during the Second World War. There were 210 such bookcase-like Bombes that gave Britain advance warning of Hitler's plans and shortened the conflict by two years..../snip/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1165535/ The-Wider-View-Nazi-codebreaker-shortened-Second-World-War-years.html http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/28/article-1165535-041C8EA9000005DC-759_634x418_popup.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/28/article-1165535-0412A5EA000005DC-1_634x377_popup.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/28/article-1165535-0412A762000005DC-903_634x425_popup.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/28/article-1165535-041C7D35000005DC-708_634x448_popup.jpg
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