bombes

Her job was to set up large rudimentary computers called bombes to decode the German messages.

Messenger News 2010

Her job was to set up large rudimentary computers called bombes to decode the German messages.

Messenger News 2010

The computers were called "bombes", and were basically devices to spin Enigma rotors as fast as possible, trying out different keys while working on "cribs".

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

The greatest single British contribution to the defeat of the Third Reich, and possibly the greatest British achievement of the past century, is known to us as Bletchley, the unprepossessing country house halfway between Oxford and Cambridge, where an eccentric team of mathematicians, musicians, and classicists broke what the Germans had with good reason believed to be the unbreakable codes of their Enigma machines, and in the process pretty well invented modern computing: the huge creaking and whirring "bombes" of Bletchley, running over endless patterns and permutations, were the forebears of your laptop.

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Bletchley Park rebuilds the bombes -- code crackers that won the ...

Boing Boing 2009

Français · Les Philippines sous la peur des bombes

Global Voices in English » Philippines: Bomb scare grips the country 2009

Bletchley Park rebuilds the bombes -- code crackers that won the war

Boing Boing 2009

The bombes are turned out so that the cake is on the bottom and you end up with a beautiful piece that looks like it could have come from a four star restaurant - and tastes like it, too.

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The only special thing you need to make it is a dome-shaped candy mold to give the bombes their shape.

Bites from other Blogs | Baking Bites 2009

The boy and I pick up one of their small baked Alaskas or ice cream bombes once every few weeks and split it for dessert, and ohmygod.

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