Bletchley Park
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News Bletchley Park turns back time The Liberal Democrats have been found to be in breach of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) following an... [26 Sep 2008]
Photos: Missile detecting DEC computer
Photo This is a DEC seismometer array station processor, used to detect earthquakes, on display at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. The DEC PDP 1134, pictured here, was a popular machine in... [16 Sep 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.09.08
Round-Up For the last week or so silicon.com has been busy publishing the results of its rummage through the National Museum of Computing, out at the home of computing itself, Bletchley Park. The console on... [12 Sep 2008]
Photos: Early analogue torpedo simulator
Photo This is the PACE TR-48, an analogue computer on display at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. The machine was made by Electronic Associates to simulate the firing of torpedoes underwater. [09 Sep 2008]
Bletchley Park appeals to US for funds
News A campaign will be launched today to ask US tech companies to help save Bletchley Park, whose wartime work helped lay the foundations of modern computing and cryptography. Phil Dunkelberger, chief... [09 Sep 2008]
Photos: Britain's first business computer
Photo This is the console for the Elliott 803 on display at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. The Elliott 803 was developed in the early 1960s and until 1965 it was the single most popular... [05 Sep 2008]
Photos: A dip into Bletchley's classic PC archive
Photo The UK's cash-strapped National Museum of Computing is based at Bletchley Park, home of World War II code-breakers and the Colossus code-cracking supercomputer. One of the museum's exhibits displays the... [03 Sep 2008]
Photos: The tech that holds up the net
Photo Alan Turing - widely seen as the father of modern computer science - worked at the NPL in the 1940s after his time at Bletchley Park where he was involved in cracking German code during World War II.... [06 Aug 2008]
Inbox: Vista, Bletchley Park and Cuil
Comment Also this week - a blast from the past - the birthplace of the UK's computing efforts Bletchley Park needs help - but not all readers agree on what is the best way forward. The survival of... [31 Jul 2008]
Bletchley Park future under colossal threat
News The survival of Bletchley Park, the secret home to Britain's codebreakers during World War II, is under serious threat from the "ravages of age and a lack of investment" unless the government steps in to... [24 Jul 2008]
UK failing to respect computing heritage
News Bletchley Park cracking Enigma or Brit Berners-Lee inventing the web gives us as much advantage as Stephenson's Rocket gives us a good national rail network. IT chiefs have hit out at the lack of respect... [15 Jul 2008]
Celebrating 60 years of computing
News Bletchley Park turns back time For more on historic computing, see silicon.com's coverage of Bletchley Park in photos, video and news here… On Saturday, it will be... [20 Jun 2008]
Bletchley Park restoration short on funds
News Historic Bletchley Park needs a financial helping hand to save several buildings used by World War II codebreakers. Bletchley Park turns back time The... [30 May 2008]
Computing museum at risk of being thing of the past
News The plea coincides with an appeal from the UK's other computing museum at Bletchley Park, which houses a rebuilt version of the Colossus World War II codebreaking computer, for sponsorship and funding. [01 Apr 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo Photo credit: MessageLabs silicon.com took a trip to Bletchley Park to see the rebuilt Colossus machine used to break the German Enigma code during World War II. Security software firm MessageLabs... [27 Mar 2008]
