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 | A guaranteed home for the museum for 25 years and almost 800 visitors on day one!
We
are pleased to announce that after long negotiations, we have signed a
25 year lease on Block H at Bletchley Park. "This gives us the
opportunity to create a world class resource on the history of
computing, and we look forward to working with the Bletchley Park Trust
to provide a first class visitor experience", says museum trustee Kevin
Murrell.
On our trial opening this Easter weekend, we saw almost 800 visitors on Monday, and we are sure from the feedback we received this was a great success. | |
 | Fold away your tray tables, and bring seat backs to upright!
During
the first open day at Easter the air traffic control / flight simulator
room was inundated with visitors! We have two specially built consoles,
one with two seats for air traffic controllers, and the other with two
seats for pilots. All the systems are networked together, and include
microphones and headphones.Also on display is a real time 'radar' image of flights over the UK. | |
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 | New accessions
Some
of the news items donated to the museum in the last few months include:
ACT Sirius, Ferranti Argos 600, IBM AS400, Shelton Signet, BBC Domesday
system, Apple III, SWTP Systems, Tektronix Graphics terminal, and two
super NCR cash registers.
New
additions to the archive include manuals and documentation on: Stantec
Zebra, Ferranti Pegasus and Orion, IBM360, IBM1130, NCR Accounting
Systems, and BBC Manuals and Magazines. | |
 | Restoration Projects
We
are currently restoring two machines: An Elliott 803 and a PDP8. The
PDP8 (a straight 8 - rack mount) includes extra memory (up to 8k!) and
two DecTape drives. The basic processor and memory is now working, but
there is a long way to go with the rest of the machine.The
Eliiott machine is basically working now. A dead transistor, causing a
resistor to overheat, was solved this weekend by smell alone! Nothing
else smells just like that bank of resistors slowly being cooked! | |
Finally, please remember that the museum receives no government funding nor any funding from gate admissions.
We rely solely on donations from the public and business to operate. You can help us - click here for more details.
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