I did not give Julien's Auctions permission to use this video.
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- I originally created this video for /r/RetroBattlestations on Reddit. It was brought to my attention that Julien's Auctions used my video, without permission, in an auction listing for another Fialka cipher machine. I have nothing to do with them, I have nothing to do with that machine, and it is not cool to use my video for commercial purposes without even providing attibution or a disclaimer that I'm not involved in any way.
Скучаю по тебе, ФИАЛКА НАША ДРАГОЦЕННАЯ!!!
Тоже скучаю. Работал 2 года на ней.
i worked on this machine in 1988 when i served in soviet army. nostalgia )
Cool!
Me too worked until 2008 ^^)
The USSR ordered all destroyed after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Only a small handful survived
i worked 1997-98.
tell me please, where did you serve?
I just can tell you that I as a customer wasn't treated with respect by Julien's auctions' chief operating officer. I was treated worse than by ebay sellers, who sell cheap items. The other staff was nice to me. I won't reply to any further questions.
Truly intricate machine with myriad complexities and capable of 20 × 10^87 settings
KOIMRADEN IS NO MICROS WEEK
I think the tape reader may have a small problem. When it detects a character with all 0’s / no punches, it should immediately stop.
Oh, really? I’ll take a look at that. Thanks!
The tape reader mechanism is integrated with the keyboard and is quite complex. Good luck.
@@ryandpierce Yeah, I’m not placing any large bets that I’ll figure out the problem! But it’ll be fun to have an excuse to play with the machine some more.
Please let me know how it goes. Are you still on the Crypto Collectors list? I’ve been posting there about Fialka.
@@ryandpierce I am subscribed, but I haven’t been posting or reading lately.
amazing
Nice vids. Maybe do some more since this is the only video of the fialka out here on youtube.
And i'm seeing it correctly that every rotor can turn independent?
+gekesulen Yes, you are seeing it correctly! The mechanism is designed to turn the rotors in an irregular pattern.
Cool! Would love to see more of the fialka
Mr., who posted this video, you understand that declassified information of a particularly sensitive importance? The structure of Violet has not yet been declassified. You will be subject to criminal punishment under art. 283 "For the disclosure of information constituting a state secret." The administration of the Russian segment of RUclips will also be punished.
How to contact you?
Hi! Thank you for your interest and concern. All technical details of this machine, including the rotor wiring for at least a couple of the different rotor sets issued to various Warsaw Pact nations, are already worldwide public knowledge, and have been for many years. There's a lot of detailed information about this beautiful and well-engineered machine available at this fantastic web site in the Netherlands:
cryptomuseum.com/crypto/fialka/index.htm
At least one very detailed and fully compatible software simulation of the Fialka is freely available online, and there's even a full-color, printed technical manual available for purchase from the site I linked to above, with complete schematic diagrams and a detailed analysis of the machine's operation. There's nothing secret about this beautiful machine any more, and my silly little video here doesn't even disclose any actual details of its internal operations, anyway.
As a citizen of the USA, I'm not particularly concerned about whether the USSR declassified this system before it collapsed.
Смерть шпионам
So how did it work out for you in the end?
Where did u find the machine ?
Alpha100 eBay
How do you power it?
No way the Soviets/Russians made this machine themselves! The high quality components and intricate precise construction means it was either made in East Germany or Czechoslovakia or both.
Justify
This was discussed recently in the CryptoCollectors group. People much more knowledgable than I am about this equipment say that the Fialka was indeed manufactured in the USSR, and that the components used in it are consistent with USSR manufacture, not East German manufacture.
To be fair, when the Russians want to build something that will last the test of time, they can. Though also, to be fair, the talent is usually sequestered till the tests show it can stand the test of time:P