Re: VMs: Re: Collection For Sale

[Jim Gillogly <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DANA SCOTT wrote:
> Thank you very much for your response. May I inquire as to your assessment 
> of the total value of your collection?

In advance of Lou's response, I'm guessing "a lot".  There is some really rare
stuff there.  I bid on one of the M-94's that showed up on eBay (they seem to
show up even less often than an Enigma), and was outbid by a random Microsoft
VP.  I've never seen a piece of SIGABA offered anywhere for sale.  I was interested
to see the shorthand letter from Coleman listed in the first paragraph of his site,
since I was the one who was able to decrypt and read it for him.  It really is an
amazing collection.

The Reeds et al. papers on ciphertext-only cryptanalysis of M-209 are not generally
available anywhere -- Ritchie has an amusing story about it on the web somewhere.
I didn't realize any unclassified copies were available until this moment.s
--
	Jim Gillogly

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