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Class. Been on before like.
Do we produce people able to make these kind of leaps any more?
Do we produce people able to make these kind of leaps any more?
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What was it on? Love owt like that me.
Been to Bletchley a couple of times and I always leave in awe.
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Bbc2.
Loose lips.
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The concept and designs of (basically) all the chips that make phones and tablets work were invented here.
Most F1 design concepts are invented here
Plenty of stuff. Its just rare there's a single thing that brings the entire nation together where nothing else matters. Covid is probably the only such thing since 1950
That's child birth for you.... Ho ho ho...
Lord Potts
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Mr father-in-law was stationed there for a few weeks in early 1944. He spoke fluent German and was in the RAF Intercept Unit (as in radio intercept) he was on signals course. He says he was given a pass and told that he could move between specified buildings but if he was found anywhere else on the site he would spend the rest of the War in solitary.
He didn't question his instructions nor was he told or knew what was going on there until he read about it in the 1970's. He had been obliged to sign the Official Secrets Act when he joined his unit and he never told anyone what he did in it until he realised in the 70's that what he knew was eclipsed by the Enigma story. For years he had told people he had been a clerk in the RAF when he had been based in Aden, Egypt North Africa Italy France Belgium and Germany He served from 1939 until 1946.
I visited Bletchley Park with him once and when the people realised that he had served there they wanted all of his military details because all records of those who had been connected with the place had been destroyed after the War. They were delighted to get a further clue from him to help build the picture.
The myth of Bletchley Park is that once Alan Turing and others had cracked the code and read the message they were home and dry in fact very few of the messages contained high grade information all the bits and pieces had to put together to build up a picture of what the Germans were upto. The Data specialists who did that and could see the connections between bits of seemingly irrelevant and mundane information are never given any credit because it doesn't make very good TV or Cinema. It more dramatic when the hero works out what the massage says and rushes in to the bosses office with the news.
He didn't question his instructions nor was he told or knew what was going on there until he read about it in the 1970's. He had been obliged to sign the Official Secrets Act when he joined his unit and he never told anyone what he did in it until he realised in the 70's that what he knew was eclipsed by the Enigma story. For years he had told people he had been a clerk in the RAF when he had been based in Aden, Egypt North Africa Italy France Belgium and Germany He served from 1939 until 1946.
I visited Bletchley Park with him once and when the people realised that he had served there they wanted all of his military details because all records of those who had been connected with the place had been destroyed after the War. They were delighted to get a further clue from him to help build the picture.
The myth of Bletchley Park is that once Alan Turing and others had cracked the code and read the message they were home and dry in fact very few of the messages contained high grade information all the bits and pieces had to put together to build up a picture of what the Germans were upto. The Data specialists who did that and could see the connections between bits of seemingly irrelevant and mundane information are never given any credit because it doesn't make very good TV or Cinema. It more dramatic when the hero works out what the massage says and rushes in to the bosses office with the news.
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