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05/03/2009

When Colossus met Game Boy

More than 20 vintage computers at TNMOC are being turned into an array of instruments by Matthew Applegate / Pixelh8 for the first performances of Obsolete? at Bletchley Park on 20 and 21 March.

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20/02/2009

UK's largest public display of slide rules opens at TNMOC

The diversity of slide rules, the analogue predecessors of digital computers, is celebrated through the newest exhibit at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park.

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11/02/2009

TNMOC reveals iconic air traffic control technology

The technology that for decades kept airspace over Southern England safe can now be seen in action in public for the first time ever at The National Museum of Computing.

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22/01/2009

Music from vintage computers

Modern music will soon be heard from some of the earliest and rarest computers in the world at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park.

 

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09/09/2008

IBM and PGP Corporation support the birthplace of modern computing

The National Museum of Computing has received contributions from PGP Corporation and IBM to help expand and modernise the museum and to enhance the educational opportunities it offers. 

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26/01/2008

German code breaker receives Bletchley Park honours

A German software engineer has been honoured by The National Museum of Computing for deciphering an encrypted radio message faster than Colossus, the British World War II code-cracking computer.

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16/11/2007

Colossus cracks German code 60 years on - but it's not the first!

Colossus, the Second World War computer, today successfully deciphered a coded message transmitted from Germany, recapturing the drama and excitement of Bletchley Park's code-breaking legacy.

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12/11/2007

The National Museum of Computing challenges public to beat Colossus

The world’s first programmable digital computer, developed at Bletchley Park to crack encoded German messages during World War II, returns to action on 15 November 2007 to mark the launch of the first part of the emerging National Museum of Computing.

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