Enigma Z30 Machine Simulator in 6502 code running on KIM Uno

[arduinoenigma]

Found it

It's the Musée D-Day Omaha

http://www.dday-omaha.fr/wp-content/upl ... C_2916.jpg
http://www.dday-omaha.fr/en/

Thanks to https://twitter.com/geoffsengine for the following list
http://www.intelligenia.org/location.htm

[Tor]

Well, that's not the one I visited, but I don't want to publish the location on the forum, these things can be stolen and this museum is so small that it's not manned most of the time. But I'll PM you with the info if you wish.

[prpplague]

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...

[BigEd]

Not that this contradicts any of that, but there is a working rebuilt Bombe at Bletchley already, and has been for a while - I've seen it several times. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe#Bombe_rebuild

[whartung]

Simon wrote:

Props making is an interesting business. I hassle the props guys at work when they make things and use random junk they find (usually our electronics bits, connectors, cables and so on) saying some poor sod in the future will be wracking their brain trying to work out exactly what that thing used in the prop is and not being able to ever work it out because it was literally just some random junk they glued on!

Unrelated to Enigma, but I know a group was striving to make a perfect replica of the original Star Wars Y-Fighter. Apparently, ILM model builder would just go out and buy large quantities of off the shelf model kits to use for parts. These guys using photos of the original, researched and hunted down all of the actual parts used on the original model.

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BigEd wrote:

Not that this contradicts any of that, but there is a working rebuilt Bombe at Bletchley already, and has been for a while - I've seen it several times. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe#Bombe_rebuild

indeed, the current completely functional replica was create actually not by the Bletchley Park Trust but the Computer Conservation Society, the same ones that have acquired the replica used in the movie "Enigma". just a side note that there are actually about 10 organizations that operate out of the Bletchley Park site, with the big three being the National Museum of Computing, the Bletchley Park Trust, and the Computer Conservation Society.