On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 05:28:35PM -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > > > > On Sep 10, 2024, at 4:31 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > On Tue, 10 Sep 2024, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > >> Wow, someone paid $56k for a MITS ALTAIR. And $945k for an Apple 1. Not > >> to mention $718k for an Enigma machine. A bunch of things went for way > >> above the estimate, while for others it's much closer. One wonders why; I > >> suppose a possible explanation is "because the auction house doesn't > >> particularly understand the market for these things". > > > > Any special provenance? (Hitler's personal Enigma?, BillG's' Altair?, > > Steve's Apple?) > > Nope. But the Enigma is a four-rotor Navy model, not the more common 3-rotor > one. I didn't know that the Navy had those; I had heard of 4-rotor machines > only as something the Gestapo used.
Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine "A four-rotor Enigma was introduced by the Navy for U-boat traffic on 1 February 1942, called M4 [..]" That page also has a photo of a 4-rotor Kriegsmarine Enigma machine. Kind regards, Alex. -- "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
