News Releases

First Class Colossus Stamp

19 February 2015

Veteran Colossus operators are delighted with the recognition of Colossus and its designer Tommy Flowers in Royal Mail's Inventive Britain set of stamps just issued. Colossus is one of two first class stamps.

Discovery of rare part of early computer

3 February 2015

A very rare original part of EDSAC, one of the world’s first computers, has resurfaced in the USA. The EDSAC team is eager to know if more exists as the part may have been acquired at auction in the 1950s.

The Imitation Archive

27 January 2015

The sounds of 70 years of computing is the focus of a new Arts Council funded project at TNMOC. You will be able to listen in as the project unfolds. New musical compositions will be published later in the year.

Join the largest learning event in history at TNMOC

8 December 2014

Visitors to TNMOC will be able to join the largest learning event in history during Code Week, 8-14 December 2014, and gain hands-on coding experience at the home of Colossus.

FUZEliers support young coders at TNMOC

3 December 2014

A team of ‘FUZEliers’ sponsored by FUZE Technologies is ready every weekend to welcome young and budding computer programmers at TNMOC to show them how to code using FUZE to explore computing.

EDSAC display opens & commissioning begins

27 November 2014

Entrepreneur Hermann Hauser has officially opened the EDSAC display. Key parts of EDSAC were commissioned, and the sights, sounds, heat and sheer size of computing in the late 1940s were brought to life.

Weekend Codability for young people at TNMOC

28 October 2014

Young people across the country are being invited to try their hand at programming computers in Block H, the world's first purpose-built computer centre, on Bletchley Park.

Colossus veterans revisit virtual and real worlds

23 September 2014

Colossus veterans and their relatives gathering to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the world’s first purpose-built computer centre, Block H on Bletchley Park, were enthralled by a prototype virtual Block H.

Summer Bytes gets even tastier

14 August 2014

The Summer Bytes Festival continues at The National Museum of Computing on Bletchley Park with digital creative fun for all theb family over the next few weeks at the home of Colossus.

Summer Bytes 2014 boots up

21 July 2014

Summer Bytes Festival at The National Museum of Computing on Bletchley Park.
Every day 11am-5pm from 26 July – 2 September 2014
Summer Bytes supported by Bloomberg

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