A real Enigma machine!

bronto on 2006-03-10T14:08:16

From irc://irc.perl.org/#axkit-dahut, today

(14:18:29) kjetilkWork: wow (14:18:57) kjetilkWork: $self->cow-orker just demonstrated a real WWII army enigma machine (14:19:22) kjetilkWork: a real, _working_ enigma machine :-) (14:39:17) bronto: kjetilkWork: WOW! (14:39:34) ***bronto wonders how he did got one (14:41:02) bronto: s/got/get/ (14:49:41) kjetilkWork: apparently, his grandfather found it (14:49:55) kjetilkWork: he was in the illegal resistance (14:50:28) kjetilkWork: he first saw the machine at his grandfather's place when he was about 10 (14:50:39) kjetilkWork: but no-one in the family knew what it was (14:51:06) kjetilkWork: it was not untill a recent bad hollywood movie that he understood it (14:51:47) kjetilkWork: the thing looked really new, actually... (14:51:59) kjetilkWork: it was an army field model (14:52:07) kjetilkWork: but had probably never been out of an office (14:52:38) kjetilkWork: so, it was probably just that his grandfather had grabbed in the days of may 1945 (14:53:53) bronto: :) (14:54:06) bronto: may I post this conversation snippet in a blog? (14:55:01) kjetilkWork: hmmm, I think someone will blog the even soonish, better point to that (15:00:21) bronto: "will blog the even soonish"???? (15:05:47) kjetilkWork: eh (15:05:52) kjetilkWork: the event soonish... (15:05:55) kjetilkWork: :-) (15:06:17) kjetilkWork: one of my cow-orkers took a few pics