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Old 30th Jun 2019, 21:17
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It used to be EODTIC (the second half was "Technical Information Centre") but I've heard it called "Idiotic".

ISTR that John Terraine says in "The Right of the Line" that when the British developed the Typex code machine, based on Enigma, the Air Ministry Patents people were concerned that it was infringing German/Swiss patents. And there is an argument that the German jet engine benefited from sight of Whittle's patents, filed in the 1930s.
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