From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 22:14:51 MDT
Amara Graps wrote:
> Last Monday evening, I had the pleasure to visit a place near Milton
> Keyes, England called: Bletchley Park...
>
> http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk
>
> I've never been a 'war buff', but I'm a physicist, and seeing parts
> of the electro-mechanical machines with dozens of rotors, running
> through sequences of letters to break codes tickled me to no end...
> Amara
There is no paradox in this at all. One who opposes war
would be interested in the goings on at Bletchley Park,
for the breaking of the Nazi enigma code shortened the
war, saved countless lives on both sides and prevented
untold human suffering.
I am pleased that the invention of silicon transistors
postdated the era when computers were made from gears,
cams and linkages. A good mechanical clock has a beauty
to it that my pentium cannot match.
spike
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