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Originally Posted by kilgoretrout

LMAO!!
Could very well be.... sure would explain a lot.. lol..

Same settings: ZXXEXIHVHRYCQPFYMFDMYUKIRAIPJCCIYSWYWJOCEX

Once again, it's the mercury doing it.


Yes, but how to put it to work is the question.

Trout's first message used the key from my first post.

 

I got Trout's first message to work, but I had to type it in instead of paste it for some reason. That problem seems to have gone away.

Obviously the machine's no good without knowing the settings, so we would have to have a "campaign" setting that only the F's know to use. Then we could have messages in a public thread without fear, and shortcut the whole pm thing.

We would have to privately pass around the campaign settings.

 

Well, elderly people are pretty much like children, so have a go!! It's fun! LOL..
And all this coming from someone who changes my avatar to a can of fish ********....LOL..

Interesting idea, Joe...

 

Thats near on 80 year old Jerry technology,amazing stuff.Being a dunderhead it took me ages to get the stecker thing

 

I bet you figured it out faster than I did. That was a PITA.

 

Marian Rejewski figured it out in his head. I get a headache just thinking about him thinking about it.

 

Chances are the manual will be in German& prolly encrypted...............so all in all,sail that Uboat up shyte creek without a paddle...

 

This is a piece of equipment we used back when I was in the Navy. Steve could use it as a boat ancher. It does the same as the ENIGMA does.

 

Ok, so in Einsteinian fashion, he cracks the enigma wiring and daily coding and so we have all their secrets so we can win the war. So in gratitude they make him a second lieutenant. WTF?