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"NIGEL HAY" <Nigelhay@tanksrus.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> A national TV news item just now covered the theft from "Station X"museum at
> Bletchley Park of an ENIGMA cypher machine, used in WW2 to
> encrypt/de-encrypt the German radio messages. Value is said to be about
> £100,000 and it is only one of 3 in the world.
> Hopefully it wil be recovered intact. Ears to the ground and all that,
In past years, I've seen what appeared to be an Enigma machine offered
for sale at a local gun show. One year it was $6,000, and the next
year it was marked $12,000. I don't recall how many rotors it had
(weren't there two versions?). It looked like WW-II equipment... are
there accurate reproductions out there? Just wondering.
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