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The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC)

MK3 6EB Bletchley, Milton Keynes, Great Britain (UK) (Borough of Milton Keynes)
Address Block H, Bletchley Park
 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Computer / Informatic
  • Typewriter, calculating and coding
  • Clocks and Watches
  • Telephone / Telex
  • Morse technology
  • Amateur Radio / Military & Industry Radio

Opening times
 Autumn + Winter: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday: 10:30am - 4:30pm;
Spring + Summer: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday: 10:30am - 5pm.
See “Days Open“ and “Events Calendar“ for details and changes to the above.

Admission
Status from 03/2024
 Adults: £10.00; Concessions: £7.50; Children (5-15): £5.00: Family: £25.00
Contact
Tel.:+44-19 08-37 47 08  eMail:lin.jones tnmoc.org  
Homepage
to Location / Directions
www.tnmoc.org
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Location / Directions
N51.998500° W0.743700°N51°59.91000' W0°44.62200'N51°59'54.6000" W0°44'37.3200"

By Rail

Bletchley Railway Station is 400 metres from The National Museum of Computing. - Turn right down road to pedestrian crossing and the entrance to the park estate is the other side of the road.

By Bus

There are buses and coaches from all parts of Milton Keynes and beyond, arriving at Bletchley Bus Station. On leaving the Bus Station head towards the Railway Station and turn right down road to pedestrian crossing and the entrance to the park estate is the other side of the road.

By Road

For Satellite Navigation users please use the postcode for the railway station (MK3 6DS) and continue past it (with the station on your right). The new Bletchley Park entrance is shortly afterwards on the left (after Milton Keynes College).

The National Museum of Computing is located on the Bletchley Park estate in Milton Keynes, UK.

At the main gate of Bletchley Park ask for The National Museum of Computing in Block H.
Inside the Bletchley Park estate, beyond the entrance to the Bletchley Park Visitor Centre, turn left and travel about 250 metres up the slope to Block H. There are parking spaces by our main entrance.

Some example tube pages for sets you can see there:

Thyratron CV1128
Vacuum Pentode EF37A (1942)
Thyratron GT1C
Transmitting Triode, air 4316A
Triode, vacuum 6J5GT (1939)
Description

TNMOC operates independend from Bletchley Park - Home of the Codebreakers.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
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 in 2007. The building — Block H — was the first purpose-built computer centre in the world, hosting six Colossus computers by the end of World War II.

The museum houses a rebuilt Mark 2 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.

Exhibits

On display in the museum are many famous early computing era machines, including a functioning Colossus Mark 2 computer that was rebuilt between 1993 and 2008 by a team of volunteers led by Tony Sale. Colossus was a machine that helped break enemy encryption during World War II.[Since 2018, the reconstruction of the Turing-Welchman Bombe, of the type used to help break Enigma, is also at the museum.

The museum also includes the world's oldest working digital computer (the Harwell Dekatron / WITCH), machines from the 1960s such as the Marconi Transistorised Automatic Computer (T.A.C.), Elliott 803 and 905, an ICL 2966 mainframe from the 1980s, an IBM 1130 from the 1960s, an analogue computer, 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 electronic calculators, a history of slide rules, a pair of Cray supercomputers, and a personal computing gallery with ten hands-on machines. Visitors can also see a re-build of the Cambridge University EDSAC computer that is underway (still in progress as of May 2019).

There is also a suite which includes many BBC Micro personal computers which are used to encourage programming among visitors, a temporary exhibition space used for short-term exhibitions and a hands on display of video game consoles from different eras. All of this is alongside various other displays of devices and information regarding the evolution of computing from the 1960s to the modern era.

Since 2009, the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has sponsored a gallery about technology of the Internet, featuring the pioneering work on packet switching carried out at NPL and the development of the first public data networks.

 
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