Talk:Stepping switch

Bombe
Consider the following statement: "Enigma - the "Machine Gun" used to check possible breaks takes its name from the loud noise made by the uniselectors."

Could this be a mis-reference to the Bomba or Bombe?


 * Probably. Alas, what I have read on Purple, Ultra, Bletchley Park, etc seems written by people who may know something of mathematics or espionage, but nothing of uniselectors so the mechanical parts remain mysterious to me.  Still, it's worth a link to an appropriate Wikipedia article.  Jim.henderson 11:12, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Copier Application
The 3M model 209 series photocopiers used a stepper relay as their control mechanism. These machines were built from circa 1967 until circa 1977. I maintained them, but retained no documentation. The steppers were from one of two sources; either C.P. Clare, or Automatic Electric. LorenzoB (talk) 06:16, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Automatic Electric made superb steppers (as well as telphone relays and telephone dials). C.P. Clare was no slough, either!Nikevich (talk) 04:24, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Revised first sections -- an apology!
What I found was surely not bad. I was, if anything, somewhat over-energetic in my rewriting, and I feel like apologizing to the original author! It would have been kinder to be less aggressive. I did, however, try to include at least a bit of his text, comparing the wiper array to the "head comb" of a rigid disk drive. (I loved his awareness of "hard" being slang usage, even if it is universal.) Best regards, Nikevich (talk) 04:24, 10 October 2010 (UTC)