Few people have heard of it, yet many consider John Blankenbaker's KENBAK-1 to be the first commercial personal computer.
Cypherpunk: Tatjana van Vark's Coding Machine
By James Grahame
Inspired by the legendary Enigma encryption machine, The Coding Machine [2003] is a perplexingly beautiful combination of art and science. Each coding wheel consists of 509 precisely machined parts. Mischievously, she refuses to publish details of the rotor wiring until someone decrypts the haiku published on her site.
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One of the two coding units.
The rear of the machine.
Beautifully complex Super Encipherment switch.
