On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:29:23PM -0400, Beaker wrote: > Nope. The "bomb" (really spelled "bomba" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Marian_Rejewski)
... usually transliterated, in English, as "bombe" > was the stepfather of Cotty's, "portable machine", the German > "Enigma" cypher machine. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine Stepchild, really. The Enigma came first. > It was built by the Poles to decipher NAZI encripted communications. Not just Nazi - the Enigma was also used by the Wermacht, a lot of whom were pretty much opposed to Nazi philosophy. A variation of the Enigma (with more rotors) was also used by the German Navy. And, of course, it was used in the U-boats - the capture of an Enigma from a crippled U-boat was given the Hollywood treatment in the movie "Enigma". There's an Enigma machine at the Computer History Museum. > > Cheers, > Beaker > > > On Apr 16, 2008, at 5:04 AM, Marcus A. Hofmann wrote: > > That's a "bomb", isn't it? ;-) > > > > > > Marcus > > > > -- > > Am 16.04.2008 um 09:46 schrieb John Francis: > > > >> > >> So: who can tell me what this is? > >> > >> http://www.jfwaf.com/PAW/PAW.php?name=PAW0816 > >> > >> > >> Most of the time I was shooting RAW with the K10D. But at the > >> end of the day I grabbed a few quick JPEGs with the *ist D. So, > >> of course, this shot (from the *ist D) looks better than any of > >> the similar shots from the K10D. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> PDML@pdml.net > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > >> and follow the directions. > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > > and follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
