At 03:25 PM 2/10/98 +0000, you wrote:

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>Returning to electronics, could the hardware be replaced by say
>banks of programmable logic chips or PICs? And where would one
>find out the details of the original machines? The author I referred
>to wrote that he did not wish to breech the official secrets act and
>thus spend his remaining days in prison.

Surely these old codes can't still be protected by laws, can they ?
I thought that some of the books mentioned in this thread DID give details.

Sean


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