How many rotating drums and wire connections did a Bombe machine have?
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Ultra
The British government established a code-breaking effort, known as Ultra, at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, England, during World War II.
The Bombe machine, developed by Alan Turing and his team at Bletchley Park to decrypt Enigma messages, was a complex electromechanical device.
A standard Bombe machine consisted of approximately:
- 100 rotating drums12
- 16 kilometers (10 miles) of wire12
- About one million soldered connections12