whartung wrote:
I just watched "The Imitation Game" about Turing and Enigma.
And the thing that went through my mind watching it was "I bet the props guys had a blast building 'Christopher'", the machine used to try and break the code. I doubt it was an operating, it was just a big box of spinny things, but I bet they had fun getting that build.
In the Fall 2016 "RESURRECTION" news letter from the Computer Conservation Society, Bletchley Park Trust made the following announcement:
"The ‘breaking news’ is that the Government has given £1,000,000 to the Bletchley Park Trust towards the cost of creating a new, large and comprehensive exhibition in the refurbished Hut 11a. We have agreed in general terms to work with the Bletchley Park Trust (BPT) to develop a new exhibition together with professional exhibition designers who BPT will engage. This exhibition has the theme of Enigma cypher breaking and includes the Turing/Welchman Bombe story. It is generally agreed that our rebuild and supportive equipment should be part of this. As part of our commitment we will also be resurrecting, refurbishing and motorising one of the dummy Bombe replicas first used in the 2001 film ‘Enigma’."
Not the one from "The Imitation Game", but from what i hear there are some negotiations going on with that as well...