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David Hamer | 2 Oct 2002 06:09

MK Citizen article

Since there seems to be little or no national press coverage
on the subject those not resident in the immediate vicinity of
Milton Keynes may not be aware of a recent press release from
the BP Trust which triggered this article in last Thursday's MK
Citizen...

With apologies for the formatting :-))

David Hamer

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The Milton Keynes Citizen  26th September 2002
park future is in doubt over debts

BLETCHLEY Park is facing another battle for survival as it grapples
with a £1.5m hole in its finances.

And tough decisions including selling off parts of the code-breaking
centre once thought sacrosanct have to be made, chief executive
Christine Large has told the Citizen.
Ironically the grim news comes during one of the most successful
periods in the Park's journey to become a major tourist and heritage
attraction.
The Enigma movie, international coverage of the theft and return of
the Enigma machine and scores of books and television programmes have
seen attendances soar.
But attracting investment, mainly from the high tech and communications
sector, to secure the site's long-term future have been hit hard by
the downturn in the UK and world economy.
The present Trust board also inherited massive debts, leaving it
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Mark Baldwin | 4 Oct 2002 07:16
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ENIGMA lectures: Oct - Nov

FYI

I have been booked to give a lecture on
WW2 Codebreakers - Enigma, Bletchley Park, & the Battle of the Atlantic
at a number of venues in the future. The lecture is followed by a hands-on
Enigma demonstration of 2229 - a working 3-rotor GAF/Army machine - which
members of the public are welcome to handle and operate, and examine the
rotors etc.
This provides a unique opportunity to experience an Enigma machine at first
hand, and no other machine is currently on tour in Britain.

The venues in the next two months are:

Oct 6 - Chertsey Hall, Chertsey - 01483 811923
Oct 10 - Dorking Halls, Dorking - 01306 879200
Oct 27 - a short talk on U559 etc at Tamworth, as part of the ceremony of
unveiling the new memorial to Grazier, Fasson & Brown.
Oct 30 - The Theatre, Middlesborough - 01642 824490
Nov 14 - The Library Theatre, Luton (matinee and evening) - 01582 547477
Nov 20 - The Civic Arts Centre, Pocklington - 01759 304570
Nov 24 - The New Windmill Hall, Upminster (matinee) - 01708 773590

Any publicity which group members can give to these would be much
appreciated.

Suggestions for venues always welcome.

Further details may be obtained from
Dr Mark Baldwin
01299 270110
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David Hamer | 5 Oct 2002 10:45

Re: ENIGMA lectures: Oct - Nov

At 01:16 10/4/02, Mark Baldwin wrote:
>The venues in the next two months are:
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>Oct 6 - Chertsey Hall, Chertsey - 01483 811923

Hi Mark...

A friend - Elaine Rice - plans to attend the above event...if she
makes herself know to you please give her the VIP treatment :-)

Regards,

David

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Fred | 6 Oct 2002 22:08

VIRUS ALERT - Message about Bus-headlights

My virus checker just detected & deleted WORM_BUGBEAR.A in a message from
the list.

Suggest delete without opening.

Also copied to the address from which the message MAY have originated.

Ian
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Robert Philpot | 6 Oct 2002 23:36

Virus messages

May I appeal on behalf of the silent 95% majority that ALL virus warnings.
are kept OFF group lists.

To be honest one wonders what use they will serve anyway. If the virus HAS
been sent then it will have already been received and if the receiver is
foolish enough, opened, but in almost all cases the server will delete any
attachment. Surely most people open messages in the order received, in the
rest of cases then people must look after their own anti-virus measures. The
particular virus mentioned will not activate if the software is up to date
anyway as it relies on a vulnerability which was spotted and dealt with some
18 months ago.

This is the third such message received by me today, ALL were false (the
virus having "hoaxed" its true sender) and it just gets dam annoying.

On another subject however, one wonders what sort of computer nasties the
major powers have up their sleeves in case of war? Perhaps a subject worth
pursuing on another list.

Robert Philpot ©MMI
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David Hamer | 7 Oct 2002 19:27

cipher/coding device..??

Greetings...

I have put three pictures in a single .ZIP file at:
<http://www.eclipse.net/~dhamer/ultra/cipher_device.zip>
...if anyone recognizes this cipher [coding?] device and is able to
enlighten me I would appreciate it...

David Hamer

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Jeffrey Goldberg | 8 Oct 2002 08:21

Silly Polish-American protest of Engima film

Appearently some Polish groups in the US have taken offense at Enigma.

Links and copies of all of the material (including my correspondence with
them) is here:

  http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/politics/polish-enigma/

-j

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Jeffrey Goldberg                            http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
Relativism is the triumph of authority over truth, convention over justice
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Mark Baldwin | 29 Oct 2002 17:58
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ENIGMA lectures: Nov - Feb

FYI

I have been booked to give a lecture on
WW2 Codebreakers - Enigma, Bletchley Park, & the Battle of the Atlantic
at a number of venues in the future. The lecture is followed by a hands-on
demonstration of Enigma 2229 - a working 3-rotor GAF/Army machine - which
members of the public are welcome to handle and operate, and examine the
rotors etc.
This provides a unique opportunity to experience an Enigma machine at first
hand, and no other machine is currently on tour in Britain.

The venues in the next few months are:

Oct 30 - The Theatre, Middlesborough - 01642 824490
Nov 14 - The Library Theatre, Luton (matinee and evening) - 01582 547477
Nov 20 - The Civic Arts Centre, Pocklington - 01759 304570
Nov 24 - The New Windmill Hall, Upminster (matinee) - 01708 773590
Jan 25 - Blackfriars Arts Centre, Boston - 01205 363108
Feb 6 - The Tivoli Theatre, Wimborne - 01202 849103
Feb 13 - Civic Centre, Aylesbury - 01296 585541
Feb 15 - The Grammar School, Midhurst - 01798 861410
Feb 28 - The Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe - 01494 514444

Any publicity which group members can give to these would be much
appreciated.

Suggestions for venues always welcome.

Further details may be obtained from
Dr Mark Baldwin
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Eugene Griessel | 30 Oct 2002 19:18
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Peter Keeble

Maybe a tad off-topic for this list but I recently uncovered Peter Keeble's
"Ordeal by Water" during a massive bookshelf reorganisation.  In this book
he describes a dive on "U-307" somewhere off Beirut - purpose to recover a
vital piece of "Infra-Red" equipment.  The book was written in 1957 so I
assume secrecy was still an issue.  However the salient facts are:

U-307 was not sunk in the Med.
The diver for this operation had to be an officer due to security being tight.
The "device" was connected to an explosive wich seems a little peculiar for
an infra-red device..
The ships that sunk this sub were Gloxinia and Petard.

U-559 was sunk/damaged so that she scuttled herself by those two ships.
She was sunk in more or less that area.
Vital parts of/the whole enigma machine and codes were recovered from
her by the heroic efforts of three men, two of whom died in the attempt.  Is
it perhaps possible that Commander Keeble's dive was somehow
connected with recovering something to do with the codes/encoding
equipment from this submarine?

Eugene L Griessel                 Dynagen E-Mail Systems Administrator
eugene@...                                     (021) 7891252

http://www.dynagen.co.za/eugene

Fortune Cookie:
    I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated
    his ability.
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Bill Orr | 30 Oct 2002 21:47
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Re: Peter Keeble

Hello all,

There is some interesting info in Jak P. Mallmann Showell's "ENIGMA U-BOATS"
regarding Commander Keeble's book and dive.  Wynn and Rohwer are in general
agreement with the info in Showell.

According to my limited info, Gloxinia's only trophy was U-205...also
mentioned by Showell in his effort to make some sense out of the confusing
info in Commander Keeble's book.

This is an interesting thread and I hope to see more info from the List.

Regards,

Bill Orr
Tulsa, OK
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