From: Joe
[mailto:rigdonj@cfl.rr.com]
I wonder how many are out there in private (non
government) hands.
I doubt there are any still in governement hands except
perhaps in museums. But stop and think for a moment, every
unit of the German army, air force, navy and even railroad
police had one during WW II. They must have made tens if not
handreds of thousands of these! And that's not including the
ones that were probably used by Germany's allies.
Absoulutely. Now, a /real/ rarity would be a 4-rotor U-boat cipher; of
which probably only hundreds were made, and most will be quitely rusting
& rotting at the bottom of the ocean...