Notes from the Museum

Last year the Museum acquired an authentic Calcomp 565 drum plotter that had once been part of an Elliott 503 system. The hope was to connect the plotter to our working Elliott 803 computer, and so the work began.

With the recent news of Bletchley Park securing Alan Turing's papers, TNMOC volunteer Pete Chilvers recalls how he gave his new SatNav an unusual test, and wondered how intelligent it really was...

The National Museum of Computing hosts not only computers of all shapes and sizes, but also a large archive of documents and books.

A very big thanks to Peter, a valued museum volunteer, who has been writing our blog for the museum’s website. Brian and Chris, two more volunteers, are going to pick up where Peter left off and bring you more from the day to day workings of our museum. So for my (Chris) first contribution, I wanted to share some thoughts about our all-important visitors