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To: combjelly who wrote (262524)	11/29/2005 11:25:30 AM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1573904

Lot's of pictures too, or at least in the hardback I got. :) I found the hardback at a used bookstore. Contains pics of all the old IBM stuff and technically how the machines worked. Using tapes and light sensors creating the first binary computer scanning for patterns which are usually the headers of any message containing dates, locations, etc. I think one story was, a couple of analysts were working on decrypting some Japanese radio traffic and were having problems. Turing walked by, looked over their shoulder, and he amazed them by telling them the message was nothing but some mail traffic going back home from the troops... One of Turing's toys... :) codesandciphers.org.uk