Hello?

Um... they had quite a number of ciphers built around it.
Actually not, because they are not ciphers, they are machines. This is why you can get the emulation software for them (the actual ciphers) to run on a PC. What you seem to be describing are mechanical cloneskis.

Sure, everyone had them that did something pretty much similar........Brits, Yanks, Japs, Russians, and my hairdresser's cat.

Last one I used was an IBM............. more years ago than I care to remember