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Bletchley Park row rages on as restored site opens to public with 'Berlin Wall'
- morganw 12y agoNational Museum of Computing is in H-Block on this map: http://www.cryptomuseum.com/bp/img/map.gif http://www.cryptomuseum.com/bp/img/map.gif One of the comments for the Guardian article from a recent visitor shows a calmer reaction: he visited both and it went OK.
- coherentpony 12y ago>One of the comments for the Guardian article from a recent visitor shows a calmer reaction: he visited both and it went OK. With all due respect, that is hardly a representative sample. I don't for a moment expect this to go down well for most people that want to see everything at Bletchley Park. It is an historical gem, and should be preserved as such.
- rwmj 12y agoPlease someone link to the "satirical underground newspaper".
- duncanawoods 12y agoTNMOC is awesome. Every geek in the UK should go. You can gift them old computing books for their growing library. Colossus is cool but seeing stuff I never knew about was more exciting e.g. The Dekatron with its decimal memory you can visually see the values, the awesome radar screens with trakker balls from the 40's or 50's, the cabinets full of early calculators (some are white spitting images of iDevices) or the early CAD system with a graphics card in a larger cabinet than the workstation. Early mainframes and minicomputers are just beautifully styled. 1 min video of the Dekatron running https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVgc8ksstyg#t=17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVgc8ksstyg#t=17 More info and 20 min video http://www.tnmoc.org/special-projects/harwell-dekatron-witch http://www.tnmoc.org/special-projects/harwell-dekatron-witch