TNMOC Projects

ICL 2966 restoration progress during 2010

Peter Vaughan — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:15:00 GMT

Work continues on the long and difficult task of restoring an ICL 2966 mainframe from the early 1980's to its former glory in the large systems room.

Harwell / WITCH Restoration - 2010 (CCS working group)

Peter Vaughan — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:45:00 GMT

Follow the restoration of the Harwell / WITCH dekatron computer, an original system from 1951 and (as funding allows) it becomes the oldest original working computers in the world!

ICL System 25 restoration progress during 2010

Peter Vaughan — Sat, 22 May 2010 23:11:00 GMT

Work has started on restoring the ICL System 25, which was purchased via Ebay from AeroVote in Aylesbury thanks to a kind donation from the ICL pensioners group.

ICL 2966 restoration progress during 2009

Peter Vaughan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:05:00 GMT

Work has now started on the long and difficult task of restoring an ICL 2966 mainframe from the early 1980's to its former glory in the large systems room.

Harwell / WITCH Restoration - 2009 (CCS working group)

Peter Vaughan — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Follow the restoration of the Harwell / WITCH dekatron computer, an original system from 1951 and (as funding allows) it becomes the oldest original working computers in the world!

PDP11 Air Traffic Control system (Museum working group)

Peter Vaughan — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:44:00 GMT

In March 2008 LATCC (London Area Traffic Control Centre) kindly donated one of the last remaining PDP11 based air traffic control systems that were housed in West Drayton.

Elliott 803B restoration / activities (CCS working group)

Peter Vaughan — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:50:00 GMT

The Elliott 803B is one of the earliest systems to be restored to working order in the museum. Follow the activities of this system here.