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Re: For sale: an Enigma machine

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Visitors might want to be a bit patient on the guided tour - largely seems a waste of time initially, with the guide talking a lot about the history of the land/park itself, and the WW2/code-breaking info being somewhat superficial. Then he takes you into the National Museum of Computing and demonstrates the machines, and sometimes lets you touch and feel as well - awesome! The guided tour ends on quite the high!

depends on the guide I guess, I've been there about 4 times (used to live just down the road, and the ticket is for a whole year!) and took the tour twice, the code-breaking content wasn't highly technical, but it was covered in a decent amount of depth I felt. Riddle from the tour: What must you add to nine to get six? (and no, it's not -3)

replying in case someone years from now reads this:

Gur nafjre vf f. avar va ebzna ahzrenyf vf vk, nqq na f naq lbh trg fvk ;)

Re: For sale: an Enigma machine

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http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=sal... I'm surprised this hadn't had more attention here! APPLE-1 -- Personal Computer. An Apple-1 motherboard, number 82, printed label to reverse, with a few slightly later additions including a 6502 microprocessor, labeled R6502P R6502-11 8145, printed circuit board with 4 rows A-D and columns 1-18, three capacitors, heatsink, cassette board connector, 8K by…

Wow! a the Apple-1 is estimated to go for £100,000 - £150,000 I wonder if there are any artifacts from todays companies that we should be grabbing up

I can imagine one of the 1st gen iphones fetching a few quid down the line.
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