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Photos: WWII codebreakers return to Bletchley Park
Photo Bletchley Park recorded audio and video of the workers' recollections and museum staff plan to exhibit these after the museum at Bletchley is revamped. The museum is currently applying... [07 Sep 2009]
Photos: Secret-code machines come to Bletchley
Photo More than 70 machines have been gathered from museums and private and government collections for the Enigma display at Bletchley - including devices from the UK's Government Communications Headquarters, the US' National Cryptologic... [17 Aug 2009]
Photos: The evolution of the PC
Photo Lin Jones, project manager at The National Museum of Computing, said the British boom in personal computing during the 1980s, which gave rise to the BBC, Spectrum and Amstrad, had inspired a generation... [07 May 2009]
WWII codebreakers' home gets £600,000 boost
News Huts three and six will form part of a heritage lottery-fund application," he continued, adding that the buildings housing the National Museum of Computing are "in good order" compared with the rest of the site, and so... [12 Mar 2009]
Human robots, Android Magic and classic radar tech
Photo A robot called Berti - or Bristol Elumotion Robotic Torso 1 to you - was on display at London's Science Museum last month, where it showed off its numerous human-like gestures. Photo credit: The National... [02 Mar 2009]
Photos: Classic Iris radar gets vision back
Photo The tech that kept the airspace over southern England safe for decades is back in action at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC), at WWII code-breaking centre Bletchley Park. Photo credit: The National... [16 Feb 2009]
Shared services - latest museum exhibit?
News The heads of IS at national museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, the National Gallery and the Science Museum, among others, meet roughly... [06 Feb 2009]
British Museum finds its voice with Pinacl of comms deals
News The British Museum has awarded a seven-year deal for IT support and communications services. The British Museum decided to embark on the new deal after previously... [12 Jan 2009]
2008 in film: From Gates' departure to T5 opening its gates
News The rebuild of the machine that played a major part in the Allied victory is on show at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley. British PCs through the ages It was his final appearance on... [12 Dec 2008]
Tech in pictures: The best of 2008
Photo In May, the gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum in London. [11 Dec 2008]
Voice biometrics, war tech and the history of computing
News First up was a look at an exhibition showing how the British PC has evolved over the years, with museum volunteer, Peter Chilvers, providing his thoughts on classics including the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. [08 Oct 2008]
Britain's classic computers: A silicon.com special
News While Bletchley Park may be best known for housing the Enigma code-breaking machine during World War II, the former intelligence facility is still home to numerous tech treasures in the National Museum of Computing. [02 Oct 2008]
ID cards, driverless buses and virtual shipwrecks
Photo The computer is on show at Bletchley Park's National Museum of Computing. See what else silicon.com saw at the National Museum of Computing based at Bletchley Park, home of World War II code-breakers and... [02 Oct 2008]
Editor's Blog: Reely good news on video
Comment I've mentioned the video player already of course, and I'm a big fan of all the video we've been publishing from the National Museum of Computing out at Bletchley - the video of the Elliott 803, one of the first... [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. No wonder the... [12 Sep 2008]
