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Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News Today the youngest veterans from Bletchley Park are in their 80s but they can still recall the smallest details of their jobs, right down to the intense heat given off by the Colossus. A... [05 Nov 2009]
Photos: WWII codebreakers return to Bletchley Park
Photo The Colossus is one of the first ever programmable computers and can be seen up and running at Bletchley Park after a major restoration programme. On Sunday these women and more than 100... [07 Sep 2009]
Photos: Restoring one of the world's oldest computers
Photo Volunteers at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park will rebuild the Witch machine (shown here) - a computer that was first used in 1951 for atomic research. See more photos from... [04 Sep 2009]
Code red: Cash pleas for struggling home of codebreakers
News A Liberal Democrat MP has asked the government for funding for Bletchley Park, the home of UK codebreaking during World War II. Simon Greenish, director of the Bletchley... [24 Jul 2009]
Badge of honour for WWII Bletchley codebreakers
News The government is to give Bletchley Park WWII codebreakers a badge to commemorate their efforts during the war. The commemorative scheme, which will be open to all military and civilian personnel who... [14 Jul 2009]
Photos: Bletchley needs £2m to save codebreakers' huts
Photo The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley houses a collection of computers, which includes the rebuilt Colossus machine used to break high-level German codes during the war. But today hut six, seen... [11 May 2009]
iPhone 3.0, Windows 7, robots and the office of the future
Photo In the concert, musician Matthew Applegate (shown here) - aka Pixelh8 - fused the sounds produced by early computer hardware into tunes at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, home of the World War II... [07 Apr 2009]
WWII codebreakers' home gets £600,000 boost
News The two bodies announced on Thursday that Bletchley Park, famous for its role in Allied codebreaking during WWII, will receive the funds over the next three years. Speaking to silicon.com sister site... [12 Mar 2009]
Photos: Making beautiful music with the earliest computers
Photo In March musician Matthew Applegate, aka Pixelh8, will fuse the simple sounds produced by early computer hardware into tonal tunes in two concerts at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, home of the World... [10 Mar 2009]
2008 in film: From Gates' departure to T5 opening its gates
News Bletchley Park Colossus In September, silicon.com took a look at the world's first electronic codebreaking computer, Colossus, as part of a series of exclusive videos... [12 Dec 2008]
Photos: The greatest tech sites from around the globe
Photo World War II codebreaking centre Bletchley Park was home to the world's first codebreaking supercomputer Colossus, which cracked codes used to encipher messages between Hitler's high... [13 Nov 2008]
Codebreaking Bletchley given help to fill in the cracks
News Bletchley Park is famous for the role it played in decrypting messages enciphered by the Nazi Enigma machine - depicted in the Hollywood film of the same name - and also for the world's first... [06 Nov 2008]
ID cards, driverless buses and virtual shipwrecks
Photo See what else silicon.com saw at the National Museum of Computing based at Bletchley Park, home of World War II code-breakers and the Colossus code-cracking supercomputer. More classic... [02 Oct 2008]
Lib Dems banned from automated calling
News Bletchley Park turns back time Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Video: The Colossus WWII... [26 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. That's home of the... [12 Sep 2008]
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