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Re: How long it was necessary to decode Enigma messages ?
Posted by: ThomasHorton ()
Date: April 28, 2011 05:03PM

You seem well educated in this. Great information. I have a question for you (or any of our other smart people here)

What was the proceedure, when encoding, to correct a typographic error -- The operator ment to hit the letter "U" but instead hit the letter "I"

With the rotor advancing per key stroke there is no "backspace". :)

Would the operator encode the word "error" (or something to indicate an error was encoded) and then re code the word correctly and press on?

I imagine that the operator did not want to make too many errors, so this might slow down the speed of encoding

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How long it was necessary to decode Enigma messages ? Richard Milkcow 04/20/2011 10:43AM
Re: How long it was necessary to decode Enigma messages ? ThomasHorton 04/21/2011 04:49PM
Re: How long it was necessary to decode Enigma messages ? Seeker 04/25/2011 06:16PM
Re: How long it was necessary to decode Enigma messages ? Ken Dunn 04/25/2011 08:43PM
Re: How long it was necessary to decode Enigma messages ? Dan Girard 04/28/2011 12:35AM
Re: How long it was necessary to decode Enigma messages ? ThomasHorton 04/28/2011 05:03PM
Re: How long it was necessary to decode Enigma messages ? Dan Girard 04/28/2011 06:40PM


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