12 Sep
2024
12 Sep
'24
7:58 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 05:28:35PM -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine
"A four-rotor Enigma was introduced by the Navy for U-boat traffic
on 1 February 1942, called M4 [..]"
That page also has a photo of a 4-rotor Kriegsmarine Enigma machine.
Kind regards,
Alex.
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
On Sep 10, 2024, at 4:31 PM, Fred Cisin via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On Tue, 10 Sep 2024, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Nope. But the Enigma is a four-rotor Navy model, not the more common 3-rotor
one. I didn't know that the Navy had those; I had heard of 4-rotor machines
only as something the Gestapo used. Wow, someone paid $56k for a MITS ALTAIR. And
$945k for an Apple 1. Not
to mention $718k for an Enigma machine. A bunch of things went for way
above the estimate, while for others it's much closer. One wonders why; I
suppose a possible explanation is "because the auction house doesn't
particularly understand the market for these things".
Any special provenance? (Hitler's personal Enigma?, BillG's' Altair?,
Steve's Apple?)