Barbie Typewriter (still sold today) is a repackaged Slovenian Mehano electronic typewriter, which has simple encoding capabilities.
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“As it was probably thought that secret writing would not appeal to girls, the coding/decoding facilities were omitted from the manual.”
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Once again, Typewriters save the world.
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I have no idea what you’re trying to tell me.
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I just read the headline this morning but apparently Bletchley Park is hosting junior coders to study encryption.
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Thanks for sharing this! I have complicated feelings about it.
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That was quoted from the page I linked to: http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/mehano/barbie …
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Yeah. Imagine discovering and then cracking a secret mode in your toy typewriter! So amazing.
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I imagine that whenever someone activated the crypto mode they would just power-cycle the keyboard to "fix" it (I would).
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