Original Enigma Machine For Sale

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

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Currently priced at a bit over $20,000, this real German Enigma machine is apparently in full working order and only needs “bulbs,” presumably for the internal display. The Enigma machine confounded the Allies for years and was essentially the precursor to the modern computer and the men and women of Project Ultra who finally cracked the code are proto-hackers to whom many of us owe our lives. After all:

JFBEFRIBFZKJNFCLICDCQEMPDGTJVEPXBBQFMAXIJENEDUKDMXSHG!

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