Bletchley Park Computing Museum

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The home of the famous WWII code breaking Colossus computer, Bletchley Park, is establish a National Museum of Computing.

Built in 1944, Block H was designed to house the world’s first digital computers, the Colossus machines.The museum will allow visitors to follow the development of computing from the ultra secret pioneering efforts of the Colossus, through the mainframes of the 1960s and 1970s, and the rise of personal computing in the 1980s. Using original systems restored to working order with the help of the BCS’s Computer Conservation Society, the museum will encourage visitors to operate and learn from our exhibits, and enjoy using machines they once used, programmed, or simply played with.
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Ian Cunningham said:
The home of the famous WWII code breaking Colossus computer, Bletchley Park, is establish a National Museum of Computing.
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This is a wonderful day out. I took my mother a few years back - she worked there during the War. She made the sandwiches and was not involved with the codebreaking !!

To see that original programmable computer is fantastic. A huge room with less computing power than a calculator - but it was the first, despite what the Americans say. Give it a try - I'm sure anyone interested in computers would really enjoy it.
 
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