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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. This hut once housed codebreakers who... [11 May 2009]
iPhone 3.0, Windows 7, robots and the office of the future
Photo A concert of electronic music took place in March using machines ranging from the World War II-era Colossus Mark II, to the 1980s favourite: the BBC Micro. March kicked off with a photographic tour through Microsoft's... [07 Apr 2009]
WWII codebreakers' home gets £600,000 boost
News The National Museum of Computing houses a collection of computers which includes the rebuilt Colossus, used to break high-level German codes during the war. The site of British codebreaking efforts during World War II is... [12 Mar 2009]
Photos: Making beautiful music with the earliest computers
Photo The codebreaking computer used in World War II, the Colossus Mark II, and vintage machines ranging from the 1960s' Elliott 803 through to the 1980s' BBC Micro - will sing again as part of the Obsolete project, which is... [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 exploring Bletchley Park, the former... [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 command. Here silicon.com visits the... [13 Nov 2008]
Codebreaking Bletchley given help to fill in the cracks
News Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Bletchley Park is famous for the role it played... [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. The MoD showed off the computer games it uses to... [02 Oct 2008]
Lib Dems banned from automated calling
News Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine The Liberal Democrats have been found to be in... [26 Sep 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.09.08
Round-Up That's home of the almighty Colossus, of course. No one does nostalgia like they did in the good old days, conventional wisdom says. But the Round-Up is here to prove that wrong. For the last week or so silicon.com has... [12 Sep 2008]
Bletchley Park appeals to US for funds
News Bletchley Park is famous for being the nerve centre of UK code-breaking operations during the Second World War, and for being the home of the world's first programmable computer, Colossus. A campaign will be launched... [09 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 best of British... [03 Sep 2008]
Bletchley Park future under colossal threat
News Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Bletchley Park is famous for the decrypting... [24 Jul 2008]
Celebrating 60 years of computing
News Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since... [20 Jun 2008]
Photos: The building of a data centre
Photo ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ¦ Photos: The best of Google Earth ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ... [11 Jun 2008]
