Computer Museums in the United Kingdom - The National Museum of Computing, Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester (Paperback)

Chapters: The National Museum of Computing, Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, the Centre for Computing History, Virtual Museum of Computing. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The National Museum of Computing is a museum in the United Kingdom dedicated to collecting and restoring historic computer systems. The museum is based at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, England, and opened on July 12, 2007. The building Block H was the first purpose-built computer centre in the world, hosting six Colossus computers by the end of the war. The museum houses a rebuilt Colossus computer alongside an exhibition of the most complex code cracking activities performed at the Park, along with examples of machines continuing the history of the development of computing from the 1940s to the present day. The museum has a policy of having as many of the exhibits as possible in full working order. On display in the museum are many famous early computing era machines, including a reconstructed Colossus Mark 2, a machine that helped break German encryption during World War II. The Colossus rebuild project and related machines are open to visitors seven days a week. In 1994, a team led by Tony Sale began a reconstruction of a Colossus Mark 2 computer at Bletchley Park. Here, in 2006, Sale supervises the breaking of an enciphered message with the completed machine.The museum includes iconic machines from the 1960s such as the Elliott 803 and 905, an ICL 2966 mainframe from the 1980s, a wide range of analogue computers, a hands-on retrocomputing gallery, and several restoration projects such as the PDP-8 and the PDP-11-based air traffic control system from London Terminal Control Centre at West Drayton near London. Further exhibits include mechanical and ele...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=12999282