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16/05/2011

A Dragon breathes fire again

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.
 

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16/04/2011

The Elliott 903 takes a step closer to restoration

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

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30/03/2011

Wilkes on ENIAC, a personal view – 1947

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

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29/03/2011

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

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

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28/03/2011

Plastic flip flops from the 1970s

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

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19/03/2011

QWERTY - something consistent across the years

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.

 

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04/03/2011

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

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.

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28/02/2011

Ele leads the code stitchers at TNMOC last weekend

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

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27/02/2011

Out with the new and in with the old

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

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27/02/2011

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

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.

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