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Bletchley Park future under colossal threat
News The letter calls for secure long-term financial backing on a par with other museums such as the Imperial War Museum, the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum. The survival of Bletchley Park, the secret home to Britain's codebreakers during... [24 Jul 2008]
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Photo 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. [30 May 2008]
Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
Photo 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. [01 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 And sticking with the military theme, the Future Soldier event at London's National Army Museum showcased holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors. Photo credit: MessageLabs silicon.com took a trip to Bletchley Park to see the... [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine
Photo Bletchley Park is now home to the new National Museum of Computing, which features a rebuild of the world's first electronic codebreaking computer - Colossus. This is the rebuilt Colossus Mk II computer at Bletchley Park's National Museum of... [18 Mar 2008]
Photos of the Month - November 2007
Photo One of the competitors, Team Lux showed off their car in London's Science Museum earlier this year. Photo credit: The National Museum of Computing The London Transport Museum opened it doors this month after a two-year refurbishment programme. [29 Nov 2007]
German beats Colossus codecracking computer
News In the Cipher Challenge, a competition run by the National Museum of Computing last week, the cipher-breaking computer Colossus had to decode encrypted radio communications intercepted from Paderborn in Germany. [19 Nov 2007]
Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years
Photo Photo credit: The National Museum of Computing Pictured are Nigel Shadbolt, the former president of the British Computer Society (BCS) and Andy Clarke, one of the founders of the Trust for the National Museum of Computing. [16 Nov 2007]
Photos: Vintage arcade games... revealed
Photo The computer is on show as part of the Game On exhibition at London's Science Museum. Missile Command is a Cold War classic from 1980 in which players defend cities from the threat of interplanetary ballistic missiles. [28 Nov 2006]
Ernie: The fastest premium bonds machine in the north-west relaunched
News Ernie is normally based in Blackpool but, to celebrate the fourth-generation machine's launch, the brand-new Ernie and his three predecessors - the 1956 original plus two built in 1973 and 1988 - have been on show in London's Science Museum for... [17 Aug 2004]
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