From msuinfo!agate!netsys!pagesat.net!news.cerf.net!mvb.saic.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!jebright Thu Apr 21 22:43:01 1994 Path: msuinfo!agate!netsys!pagesat.net!news.cerf.net!mvb.saic.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!jebright From: jebright@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James R Ebright) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Bletchley Park machines on view! Date: 21 Apr 1994 17:10:51 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Lines: 76 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2p6c2r$5sa@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu I just had to post this so sci.crypters who don't read uk.announce or alt.folklore.computers get the word! /Jim From: richard@praxis.co.uk (Richard Wendland) Subject: Exhibition of code-breaking machines open at Bletchley Park Organization: Praxis, Bath, U.K. Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 21:49:51 GMT An Exhibition of wartime code-breaking memorabilia including fragments of a Colossus, a wartime semi-fixed-program vacuum tube calculator, is now open at Bletchley Park alternate weekends. Bletchley Park, England, is a country house and grounds some 50 miles north of London where highly secret work deciphering intercepted German military radio messages was carried out during World War 2. Thousands of people were working there at the end of the war, including a number of early computer pioneers such as Alan Turing. The nature and scale of the work has only emerged very recently, with total secrecy having been observed by all the people involved. Throughout the war, Bletchley Park produced highly important strategic and tactical intelligence used by the Allies, (Churchill's "golden eggs"), and it has been claimed that the war in Europe was probably shortened by two years as a result. The announcement of the exhibition is: "Good progress is being made by the Bletchley Park Trust in acquiring the Park as an historical campus, with plans to create very active museums, initially of Computing and of Cryptography. The Computer Conservation Society (CCS), a specialist group of the British Computer Society, has been asked to help the planning and preparation of a Historical Computer Exhibition there in the near future. There are very many buildings in the Park, and there should be plenty of room for spacious displays. If the plans for acquisition proceed as expected, it is hoped that the CCS will have substantial facilities for storage of old artifacts and for restoration workshops, as well as archive, library and research facilities. There is already a good Exhibition of wartime code-breaking memorabilia in an Assembly Hall in the Park. The Exhibition has on show an unique collection of German cipher machines including a four-rotor naval Enigma machine, a Lorenz SZ42 and a Siemens T52, all very rarely seen before. Also on display are some original fragments of a Colossus, and some of the plans for the Colossus rebuild project. There is a working radio intercept station with a pair of National HRO receivers. Much of Bletchley Park, including the Exhibition, is now open to visitors on alternate weekends from 10.30am to 4.00pm on Saturday and Sunday. The next open weekend is 23rd/24th April 1994. Admission is UKPounds 2.00 (UKPounds 1.25 concessions and children), and includes a 90-minute guided tour of some of the wartime buildings, including the original 'Hut 6'. There are associations with Alan Turing and other notable names from the early days of scientific cryptography and electronic computing. Further information regarding progress at this famous site will be posted as it becomes available. Tony Sale - Secretary to the Computer Conservation Society." Bletchley Park is 150 yards from Bletchley railway station on the line from Euston station, and is signposted. By car, it is off the B4034 Bletchley to Brackley road, and about seven miles from the M1. The OS grid reference of the entrance is SP 863 336. The telephone number of the Bletchley Park Trust office is +44 (0) 908 640404. It is staffed in office hours, and on open weekends. ************ cross posted from alt.folklore.computers **************** -- A/~~\A 'moo2u from osu' Jim Ebright e-mail: ebright@bronze.coil.com ((0 0))_______ Time to get a job! -- Vast VAX Vita! \ / the \ Educational Technology or Programming Position (--)\ OSU | E-mail! (Will respond to all :)