Virtual Tour

These pictures give a glimpse of what is on show at TNMOC.

 

You can also take a ten minute video tour.

The museum is expanding steadily and displays change, so exhibits in these pictures may not always be on show.

 

Click on any of the images to see a larger version

Large Systems Gallery

ICL 2966 mainframe   ICL 2966 mainframe   Transistorised Automatic Computer
ICL 2966 showing disk drives (front) and the mag tape units at the back.   ICL 2966 viewed from the mag tape units showing the consoles (right) and the 5 main controller cabinets (top)   TAC - Transistorised Automatic Computer, used to monitor a nuclear power station
         
Elliott 803B   Elliott 803B Console   Elliott 803B Memory Cabinet
Elliott 803B showing console back left, tape station centre and main processor & memory cabinets right   Elliott 803B console (centre) and paper tape station (right)   Elliott 803B Core store (4K x 40 bits)
         
Elliott 905   Elliott 905 console   80 column punch card station
Elliott 905 - Large cabinets house PSU's small CPU & Memory   Elliott 905 Console   80 column punch card station
         

Analogue Computing Gallery

Analogue computer   PDP11 Blacknest seismic monitor   Solartron analogue computer
 Analogue computer   PDP11 Blacknest system used
for seismic monitoring		   Solartron mini-space analogue computer
Hybrid digital-analogue computer        
EAI Hybrid digital-analogue computer        
         

Personal Computing Gallery

  
 
Hands on personal computers   Iconic PCs on display    PC gallery timeline
         

Technology of the Internet Gallery

   
Corridor towards the new gallery   Display showing timeline   Corridor of new gallery
         

Flight Simulator Room

Live air traffic control on screen    2 or the 4 filght simulator PCs    
Live feed of air traffic over the south of England. The room also has a voice transmissions from local aircraft.   Just two of the four flight simulator stations    
         

Harwell / WITCH computer & Air Traffic Control

The complete machine on display at TNMOC        
The Harwell / WITCH dekatron computer from 1951.        
         
Full air traffic control system    Close-up of radar displays    Radar display showing aircraft
The PDP 11 based LATCC air traffic control system   Closer view of the 2 radar display terminals   Radar display showing close up of air traffic
         

Calculator Cabinets

Calculator cabinets   Another view of the calculator cabinets    
Part of the calculator collection   Another view of the calculators    
         

Colossus Gallery

Colossus front view   Colossus rear view   Colossus teleprinter
Front view of colossus (fish eye)   Rear view of colossus showing just some of the 2,500 valves it uses (fish eye)   Front view showing output teleprinter
         
Colossus paper tape reader   Fault finding on Colossus   Tony configuring Colossus
Colossus paper tape reader which has a continuous loop of tape reading at 5000 chars/s   Tony Sale fault finding at the rear of one of the machine racks   Tony making adjustments to the patch panel
         
Colossus valve close-up    Front panel lights    
Close-up of one of the valve racks. Over 2500 valves are used.   Front light display showing progress of finding the wheel positions.    
         

Tunny Gallery (New)

Tunny Gallery Side View   Radio receiver station   Radio station ticker tape machine
Tunny Gallery   Radio receiver station   Radio Receiver tickertape machine
         
Teleprinters    Tunny completed - front view    Tunny plug patch board
 Some of the teleprinters used to create paper tapes and transmit messages.    Completed Tunny    Tunny plug patch board

 

Other areas

Master clock    Slide rule cabinets    Slide rule cabinet 2
Master electo-mechanical pendulum clock. It controls all the clocks in the museum.   The two new slide rule cabinets, the most recent addition to the museum   A view of the second slide rule cabinet
         

 

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