Re: The Macintosh is a girl's computer!

On 2007-04-03 01:24:10 +0100, real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) said:

I recall reading recently that the bloke in charge of the U-Boats
believed it. I gather he was the only one - the idea I got was that
everyone else in the hierarchy thought he was potty on the subject.

OK, but he had some inside information here - weren't some of the codebooks used by Turing et al recovered from a captured U-Boat? ;-)

Cheers,

Chris

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