> also along those lines ... i'd love to visit Bletchley Park. is it worth
> a visit? i've seen Enigma machines before, but i understand they have
> some rare ones there.
When I went some years ago, there wasn't a lot in the way of actual
hardware on display, but there were some very knowledgeable people and
there was the reconstructed Colossus and I still found it worthwhile.
But that was back when they were only open on alternate weekends --
now it's every day -- so they may have been able to improve their
exhibit collection by now.
In case you didn't realize, the place is not in London, but in the
town of Bletchley. It's an easy trip from Euston station by train
and at the Bletchley end you can walk to the place.
Incidentally, if this sort of thing interests you, at some time if
you're in the area you should look into visiting the US's National
Cryptologic Museum, which not coincidentally is near the NSA's
headquarters, between Washington and Baltimore.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "A secret proclamation? How unusual!"
msb@vex.net -- Arsenic and Old Lace
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