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From: Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs...
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:38:53 +0100
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On 15/09/2024 10:58, Cursitor Doom wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 08:13:15 +0100, Jeff Layman wrote:
> 
>> On 15/09/2024 03:49, john larkin wrote:
>>
>>> The best thing about MK is that it's close to Oxford.
>>
>> I really must disagree. The best thing about MK is Bletchley Park. It's
>> more than possible that none of us would be here if it wasn't for the
>> activities at Station X in the early 40s.
>>
>> It's perhaps interesting to surmise that if what went on at Bletchley
>> Park hadn't been kept secret until the mid 70s, perhaps the new town
>> envisioned in the 60s would have been called "Bletchley" in honour and
>> recognition of what it had done to hasten the end of World War II.
> 
> They've made a museum out of it and it's *very* well worth a visit.

I visited at the end of November 2009, when it had just opened and the 
huts were still in a pretty rough state. It was a good time to go as it 
was a very cold day and there were few visitors. I was lucky on two 
counts. Firstly, we were shown round by Jean Valentine (who worked there 
during the war and had appeared on numerous "Station X" documentaries. 
She was one of those who entered the various settings onto the Bombe 
machine, and then phoned the possible decryption code to the hut where 
Turing worked. It was more-or-less next door, but she had no idea where 
it was, not even if it was at Bletchley Park!). Secondly, I was able to 
chat to Tony Sale for a while, as there was nobody else around. He, of 
course, was the driving force behind rebuilding Colossus. He had spoken 
with Tommy Flowers, who designed and built the original, and helped Sale 
with the rebuild as almost all the original documentation had been 
destroyed on Churchill's orders

-- 
Jeff