– How did the Turing machine work?

Question

I wanna know how Alan Turing’s computer worked, and in turn, how it was able to crack the German Enigma.
I’ve watched a few videos on it, but they all seem confusing.

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Answer 1

Maybe you’re confusing to things:

– a “Turing machine”: an abstract concept of a device, which would be pointless to actually build, that Turing invented to be able to philosophize about what computers can and cannot do in principle. It involves a storage tape and a read/write head

– the “bombs” at Bletchley Park, which Turing and his colleagues designed and built to crack the Enigma code. They involved many clicking relays, hence the name.