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ZDNet UK's National Museum of Computing awayday

...on The National Museum Of Computing (TNMOC), an independent charity located at Bletchley Park, the World War II codebreaking complex. The idea was to run... Read more

27 April, 2012 by Charles McLellan
BT's archive: Pictures from the vault

BT's archive: Pictures from the vault

...s Dollis Hill Research Station in 1935. Dollis Hill subsequently worked with Bletchley Park on Colossus, the world's first full electronic computer.After World... Read more

20 January, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins
Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

...in existence today;His leading role at the secret decoding centre at Bletchley Park, helping shorten the Second World War by two years with his... Read more

3 March, 2012 by S Barry Cooper
Bletchley museum treasures vintage tech

Bletchley museum treasures vintage tech

...technology, some of which dot the shelves that line the corridors in Bletchley Park's Block H. On a recent visit, ZDNet UK was unable... Read more

2 May, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
Acorns land at <endeca_term>Bletchley Park</endeca_term>

Acorns land at Bletchley Park

...Cambridge institution, courtesy of the National Museum of Computing's collection at Bletchley Park. Acorn's first product was the Acorn System 1, based on... Read more

25 April, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
History of storage: Cuneiform tablets to flash

History of storage: Cuneiform tablets to flash

...cassette storage. This particular unit is from a 1960 Eliot 803B in Bletchley Park, and is a very early example of a tape drive. The... Read more

5 November, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins
A tour of the UK's Vintage Computer Festival

A tour of the UK's Vintage Computer Festival

...be held in the UK. We went to the weekend event at Bletchley Park and captured something of the sheer geekish joy that 2,000... Read more

22 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins
Tunny code-breaker rebuilt at <endeca_term>Bletchley Park</endeca_term>

Tunny code-breaker rebuilt at Bletchley Park

...in World War II, opened at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park on Thursday. This picture from the new Tunny Gallery shows, from... Read more

26 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Photos: Codebreaking Bletchley Park gets £4.6m lottery grant

...war machine. The work of the World War II codebreakers based at Bletchley Park allowed the Allies to stay one step ahead of the German... Read more

5 October, 2011 by Nick Heath
The outer limits of vintage tech uncovered

The outer limits of vintage tech uncovered

...possible to compose an entertaining photostory about the Vintage Computer Festival at Bletchley Park without including a single shot of a computer, purely by documenting... Read more

25 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

Bletchley Park loads 2,000 for vintage computer festival

...2,000 technology enthusiasts visited the first British Vintage Computer Festival at Bletchley Park on Saturday and Sunday. The festival, organised by The National Museum... Read more

22 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins
Google donates £550,000 to <endeca_term>Bletchley Park</endeca_term>

Google donates £550,000 to Bletchley Park

...Google has donated over half a million pounds to Bletchley Park, the home of Britain's World War II code-breaking operation... Read more

15 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Bletchley Park Trust gets £4.6m lottery grant

...Bletchley Park has been given £4.6m in lottery funding to secure Second... Read more

5 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Colossus of computing conservation Tony Sale dies

...led the rebuilding of Colossus and kick-started the campaign to save Bletchley Park, has died at the age of 80. Tony Sale, the engineer... Read more

30 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Photos: WWII machine that cracked Nazi codes is reborn

...war there were between 12 and 15 Tunny machines operating continuously at Bletchley Park. The machines initially took several weeks to decipher messages. However, following... Read more

3 June, 2011 by Nick Heath

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