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Photo The Witch machine (shown here) is being restored by volunteers at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. The device, which is designed to swim around the stomach to investigate any problems... [02 Oct 2009]
Bletchley Park lands £460,000 funding boost from lottery
News Bletchley, which houses the National Museum of Computing, has won £460,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to help fund its restoration and could receive a further £4.1m to transform it into a heritage... [29 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.09.09
Round-Up Take a look at the pictures from the National Museum of Computing and you'll agree - it's a mighty piece of kit. Most of us carry more computing power in our trouser pockets these days... [04 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. The... [04 Sep 2009]
Bletchley Park funding call rejected: No new cash for codebreakers' home
News Bletchley, which houses the National Museum of Computing, had been seeking government backing as it currently only has enough cash to sustain it for two to three more years. Bletchley Park, the home of... [26 Aug 2009]
Code red: Cash pleas for struggling home of codebreakers
News In an early day motion filed on Monday, MP Phil Willis called on the government "to provide operational funding whilst the museum is developed for long-term sustainability, securing the site for future generations to... [24 Jul 2009]
iPhone apps, Antique PCs, Microsoft R&D and supercomputers
Photo Our photos of the National Museum of Computing's PC Gallery which opened last month included the retrotastic Commodore PET 2001 pictured above - which had a built-in monochrome monitor, a 1MHz processer... [02 Jun 2009]
Museum of Computing gets new home
News A museum dedicated to the history of computing has found a new home after being forced to shut its doors for a year. The Museum of Computing will reopen in new premises... [26 May 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. This hut once housed... [11 May 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... [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... [12 Mar 2009]
Photos: Making beautiful music with the earliest computers
Photo Applegate, who has worked with former Blur frontman Damon Albarn, hopes Obsolete will put the spotlight on the UK's computing heritage and the tech treasures within The National Museum of... [10 Mar 2009]
Human robots, Android Magic and classic radar tech
Photo Photo credit: The National Museum of Computing The classic radar tech that kept the airspace over southern England safe for decades was back in action last month at The National Museum... [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... [16 Feb 2009]
Photos: Macs through the ages
Photo Photo credit: Computer History Museum Photo credit: Computer History Museum Photo credit: Computer History Museum Photo credit: Computer History Museum Photo credit:... [22 Jan 2009]
