ITS AN ENIGMA....

Today I drove the hour and a half to Bletchley Park. This is the place in England where the British intelligence services decoded the 'enigma' code used by the Nazis in WW2. The place was made famous by the film Engima, and the story itself completely rewritten by hollywood in a submarine-based movie (never seen it).
Bletchley park is an excellent place to visit. They have some very well informed guides that show you around the place where Alan Turing and his fellow mathematicians worked out how to break the 'unbreakable' codes used to encrypt german army communications. Its also, in many way, the birthplace of the modern computer, and they have a rebuilt replica of the original 'collosus' computer at the site, as well as lots of real captured enigma machines. Its a fascinating, and in some cases very moving and thought-provoking place to visit. Whats amazing is the fact that these boffins effectivly gave the UK a major lead in computer technology, but the whole lot (the machines, the blueprints everything) was deliberately destroyed after the war to prevent the knowledge falling into the wrong hands.
I took some pictures of the 'turing machines' and the replica 'collosus' computer. Click the thumbnails to enlarge...