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Recognising Bletchley Park's Unsung Heroines
News During World War II, around 6,000 women worked at the highly secretive Bletchley Park and its outposts. Bletchley Park, or Station X as it was mysteriously known at the time, was the intelligence centre behind the country's efforts to decode...
[March 12, 2008, 11:08]
Enigma Code Machine Swiped From Bletchley Park Museum
News One of only three existing Enigma machines -- used by the Nazis to encrypt messages during the second world war -- has been stolen from the code-breaking museum at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. Bletchley Park was the location of Station X, the...
[April 3, 2000, 12:07]
Bringing Colossus Back To Life
News It is kept in its original location at Bletchley Park, where it cracked Nazi codes during World War II and played a key role in the Allied victory. Credit: Bletchley Park Trust Credit: Bletchley Park Trust
[November 19, 2007, 14:10]
Gates Rejects Birthplace Of Modern Computing
News The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation has turned down a request for funding from the UK's Bletchley Park -- reputedly the home of the world's first modern programmable computer and widely credited with helping bring WW2 to an early end.
[August 11, 2003, 10:00]
Man Charged With Enigma Machine Theft
News Dennis Yates, who has been charged with stealing the Enigma G312 device from Bletchley Park museum in April, was snared by investigators who hid messages in newspapers and Web pages and arranged midnight graveyard rendezvous, according to reports.
[November 20, 2000, 12:09]
Police Call Code-breakers To Crack Enigma Riddle
News The machine was taken from the Second World War museum Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. Bletchley Park was at this time the location of Station X, the code-breaking unit which succeeded in cracking Enigma code.
[September 13, 2000, 14:04]
Tech Heroes In Line For 'Greatest Briton' Award
News During World War Two, Turing -- an anti-war protestor in the 1930s -- worked at the top-secret Bletchley Park. Winston Churchill once described Bletchley Park as Britain's secret weapon that won the second World War.
[August 22, 2002, 12:07]
Ransom Negotiations For WWII Code Machine Begin
News Bletchley Park museum, devoted to displaying some of the earliest computer technology in the world, began negotiations over the weekend to rescue a stolen wartime cryptography artefact for £28,000 ransom.
[October 9, 2000, 15:04]
Enigma Thief Will Be Found, Says Bletchley Director
News Christine Large, director of the Bletchley Park Trust, which runs the Buckinghamshire heritage site from which the machine was stolen in 2000, compared the search for the mastermind behind the burglary with the search for Ronnie Biggs after his...
[August 11, 2003, 13:35]
Code Breakers Secrets Revealed
News The documents will show that a machine known as "Colossus II", with basic programmable capabilities, was being used at British code-breaking headquarters, Station X in Bletchley Park, to decrypt high-level tactical communications encrypted using...
[October 2, 2000, 15:11]
Modern PCs To Challenge WWII Codebreaker
News Colossus computers were built during WWII at British codebreaking centre Bletchley Park, where the National Museum of Computing is now housed. Sale and his team have spent 14 years rebuilding a Mark II Colossus, which is now installed at Bletchley...
[November 15, 2007, 14:09]
Gates Rejects Birthplace Of Modern Computing
Talkback With Bletchley park closed due to lack of funding (hopefully not! Maybe the Americans can again rewrite history and steal the glory with their own version of events.
[August 18, 2003, 19:14]
The Rebuilt Colossus Codebreaker In Action
News Bletchley Park was the secret home to Britain's top codebreakers during World War II. The base is now home to the fledgling National Museum of Computing, which features a rebuild of the world's first electronic codebreaking computer, Colossus.
[March 27, 2008, 11:57]
BT Outlines Big Datacentre Push
News The investment will include two more London datacentres to add to today's Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire and London Docklands sites. BT has outlined a plan to invest $2bn over three years to develop 44 Internet datacentres in an alliance with AT&T...
[April 12, 2000, 7:11]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog If that's too rich for you, £120 buys you a working electronic model from Bletchley Park itself. Monday 27/3/2006 For the next week, you've still got time to get your bids in for a possibly genuine Enigma machine - which at the time of writing was...
[March 31, 2006, 19:30]
Colossus Misses The Christmas Rush
Blog Now our plucky lads at Bletchley Park are raising a little bit of capital by flogging pieces of the tape used in the challenge, in limited edition envelopes, for a tenner. The Cipher Challenge, run by the National Museum of Computing, was a great...
[January 4, 2008, 16:52]
Enigma Machine Sent To Jeremy Paxman
News The Enigma machine was stolen six months ago from a glass case in the Wartime museum at Bletchley Park. Jeremy Paxman got a bit of a shock when he opened his post Tuesday: the UK's top TV journalist was sent the stolen Enigma machine in a parcel...
[October 18, 2000, 9:13]
Early Computers
Talkback The machines and all documentation are to be sent to the Computer Museum at Bletchley Park. Fascinating. I am in process of resurrecting two Transtec Krypton Computors which ran on CPM.To start you loaded the OS from a 5inch floppy and stored data...
[February 8, 2008, 10:43]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog One was meeting a member of the wedding party who worked in British intelligence during WW II -- someone who knew Bletchley Park when it was running, and a lot more besides. Monday 17/4/1999 Whew! What a couple of weeks.
[May 21, 1999, 16:28]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News One was meeting a member of the wedding party who worked in British intelligence during WW II -- someone who knew Bletchley Park when it was running, and a lot more besides. Monday 17/4/1999 Whew! What a couple of weeks.
[May 21, 1999, 15:28]
