Re: The Macintosh is a girl's computer!

Chris Ridd <chrisridd@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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? ;-)

Yes, and even easier: from some of the weather ships
the Germans sent out.

But just having the code books wasn't good enough.
They had to knew the settings in use each day.

Jan

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