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Bletchley Park Card Files



I am wondering if the massive card files, built and maintained at Bletchley
Park, Buckinghamshire, UK, are public? This card file dealt with info
gleaned from German radio messages intercepted and then deciphered  by the
British. This is where Alan Turing and Tommy Flowers, GPO engineer, used
some of the first computers. Bletchley Park is now open to the public on
weekends, and a working model of the Colossus computer is operational. The
largish card file building, it is my understanding, is still closed up. To
my knowledge, those card files haven't been declassified, unlike some other
things that have trickled out about this amazing place. If anyone can assist
me on that, I'd appreciate it. If any of you find yourselves north of
London, say on the way to the obligatory Stratford-on-Avon, try to fit in a
visit to the place. The Enigma Pub just down the road is a neat place for
lunch and to enjoy the neat theme, based on breaking the enigma codes. There
is a public library sign prominently displayed in the one dining area of the
Enigma Pub. Cheers!

Sharon Lee Butcher, Reference Librarian
AEDC Technical Library
100 Kindel Drive, Suite C212
Arnold AFB, Tennessee   37389-3212
Email:  sharon.butcher@arnold.af.mil
Phone:  (931) 454-4430/DSN 340-4430
FAX:    (931) 454-5421/DSN 340-5421

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