TNMOC Blog

A Dragon breathes fire again

Chris Monk — Mon, 16 May 2011 18:15:00 GMT

From SWTPC to Dragon, a volunteer scores two hits bringing two related computers back to life and on display at The National Museum of Computing.

The Elliott 903 takes a step closer to restoration

Chris Monk — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 21:33:00 GMT

Work on the Elliott 903 has continued since November last year and is making significant progress.

Wilkes on ENIAC, a personal view – 1947

Chris Monk — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:55:00 GMT

In 1947 a British magazine, ‘Electronic Engineer’ published an article by Sir Maurice Wilkes describing the ENIAC computer.

Programming for a high speed automatic calculating machine. (M.V. Wilkes).

Chris Monk — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:58:00 GMT

‘Prepare a problem for a machine and obtain a solution’. The Sir Maurice Wilkes ‘take’ on programming, written in 1949.

Plastic flip flops from the 1970s

Chris Monk — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:05:00 GMT

TNMOC recently received a donation of a Ball Operated Binary Calculator and Tutor (BOBCAT).

QWERTY - something consistent across the years

Chris Monk — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:16:00 GMT

The Museum contains many computers from across the decades and using a wide variety of technology. But there is something you will see over and over again as your browse our computing collection and it is the QWERTY keyboard.

One analogue of a desktop, the TR-48 ticks away

Stephen Fleming — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:23:00 GMT

Few people know about, let alone can program, an analogue computer. But our volunteers have a TR-48 from the early1960s up-and-running and available for visitors to see.

Ele leads the code stitchers at TNMOC last weekend

Stephen Fleming — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:24:00 GMT

Visitors to TNMOC were invited on Saturday to join the team stitching the term 'code' as part of the Embroided Digital Commons project.

Out with the new and in with the old

Chris Monk — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:15:00 GMT

After successfully proving the Elliott 803 can communicate with the Calcomp plotter, the next task is to build an authentic interface.

New displays, restoring the oldest working PC in the UK and lots more.

Chris Monk — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:58:00 GMT

Another bumper edition of the Museum Blog: restoring the oldest working PC in the UK, more Tidbits from our Archivist and a Museum artifact on display in California.