possibly OT: Enigma Cypher machine on e-bay. - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

10 Mar 2003

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 From: "William Donzelli"
&lt;aw288(a)osfn.org&gt;

   I think this one does have the ability to do a
loop.
 The rotating wheels constitutes a three level loop.
 In fact, it is hard wired to loop.
  Lets see:

  a. Changing wheels and order changes stored program
  b. Hitting different keys causes conditional change of output
  c. Wheels generate nested loops
  d. Keyboard and display form I/O

 It looks like it meets your list. 
SSSSTTTTRRREEETTTCCCHHH.......

I should point out the the four way switch I use to turn on the lights in 
my kitchen folllow the basic ideas of the Enigma. Do I live in a a computer?

William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org

No, it doesn't meet either a or c. It is arguable as
to b. I'll give you d.
 I don't think I stretched on any of the ones I listed.
Well, maybe a little on b but the rest are quite clear.
It isn't a general purpose computing machine but it is
clearly a computing machine.
Dwight