The National Museum Of Computing

Book now for our Winter Bytes Activities for kids! Running between Christmas and New years, we have a range of different activities that will keep the kids busy! Head over to here https://buff.ly/2SLD3Bl and join us here at the museum! #tnmoc #tech #kidsactivities #daysout #MK

We'll be having a visit from this community pub's regulars soon. We've been to the The Tommy Flowers Pub, have you? It's been voted one of London's best. https://londonist.com/london/drink/tommy- flowers

If you missed last week's Tony Sale Award win by Binghamton's flight simulators series, here's E&T's coverage.

Not to be missed! Live tonight at 9pm on BBC 4. And watch out for some TNMOC artifacts.

You can see more like this at TNMOC -- just ask to use the Computer Literacy Project Archive.

The #TNMOC learning program is offering a new "Recommend A Friend" initiative! If you introduce us to a colleague who hasn't been to visit us yet you and them can get £50 off EACH! #Deal #Education #Museums

From Venue View Virtual Tours, the folk who brought you the tour of the First Generation Gallery, here's a virtual tour of the Churchill War Rooms where so many of the Bletchley deciphered messages would have made such an impact.

Corsham School ICT students at the STEM girls' day at TNMOC.

On her visit to receive the Tony Sale Award for computer conservation last week, Susan Sherwood popped into the BBC World Service Click studios for an interview about the conserved flight simulators. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cswhf 8 … … Starts at 13:07

All ready for STEM girls day in the Classroom, recently refurbished with the support of @Sophos

To celebrate the WITCH reboot six years ago today, the 50-second video that topped one million views.

On this, the sixth anniversary of its reboot, here's the story of the Harwell Dekatron / WITCH computer, the oldest working digtal computer on the planet. Superb short video by Lost Boys Studio.

Six years ago today, the Harwell Dekatron / WITCH computer was rebooted to become the world's oldest working digital computer in the presence of two of its original designers. #OnThisDay

The #TNMOC learning program is offering a new "Recommend A Friend" initiative! If you introduce us to a colleague who hasn't been to visit us yet you and them can get £50 off EACH! #Deal #Education #Museums

Book now for our Winter Bytes Activities for kids! Running between Christmas and New years, we have a range of different activities that will keep the kids busy! Head over to here https://buff.ly/2SLD3Bl and join us here at the museum! #tnmoc #tech #kidsactivities #daysout #MK

ZDNet story from Jack Schofield on the Tony Sale Award of 2018.

Tony Sale Award for computer conservation. Winner 2018:

Eleven years ago, on the second day of the colossal challenge, the Colossus Rebuild showed how to break Lorenz codes in a challenge that caught the world's attention. Relive the two days of activity:

Would love to come as see the Museum. Was in Hardware design back in 60's and did have the 1st prototype board hand wired Computer Technology Ltd (Iann Barron) Modular One Computer, some how it got lost in all my collections of electronic stuff when I moved to Australia. It had early 8 pin round IC's mounted on vero pins drilled into a piece of Paxolin panel. Would have been built in a House in Luton before the company moved to a factory in Hemel Hempstead when I joined them as employee No 45.

Worth seeing but you could miss it as it’s behind the Bletchley Park entrance where they charge £18.50 whereas NMC charge £7.50.



But it’s a cool place great historically important artifacts and lots of other rooms to take you into that nostalgic moment of computers and equipment from yesteryear, some recently used too



The people who give talks and explain the equipment are top notch too, with fantastic enthusiasm it’s worth the visit, I want to come back again!!

Visited today and found it really good and interesting. Staff were absolutely brilliant and really knowledgeable. I like their friendliness to talk to you while you view the exhibits and their passion for their subject was really good to see.

Took my 2 lads (13/15) and dad to the museum. Car parking and access straightforward, small cafe etc. This museum is run by passionate and incredibly knowledge people. Not a huge museum but a wonderful place to relive and be educated on so much of computing history including the home computing of late 70s early 80s. My boys really enjoyed it took

Took 10 year old who wanted to play on the computers from

“Last century”. Great value for money, really interesting, very helpful and knowledgeable staff.

This place is awesome - as one reviewer described it "a national treasure". It is run by friendly and knowledge able volunteers and was recently under the threat of being knocked down to make way for more houses. Disgusting in my view and also disgusting it doesn't get the official funding and recognition it so rightly deserves!

This is a fantastic museum. I took my son and we went on the tour, which I highly recommend. It was very informative and our guide was very knowledgeable, and answered all questions with ease, without being patronising!😃👍

The exhibits were fantastic, even if they did make me feel old when I saw computers from my past!😱👍🙀

To do this on the back of volunteers only speaks volumes for the museum.

Go to see this museum and you'll be impressed too!😃👍

So interesting , so much to do and the guides are so patient and knowledgable! And thank you to the lovely staff who let the kids use the Oculus VR ! They’ve had an awesome afternoon! Well worth the entry fee.

Slightly tucked away, on the edge of the Bletchley Park museum/park, but well worth a visit if you have an interest in computers. Not the biggest, flashest, or slickest of museums, but the staff/volunteers, experience and information is brilliant. There's equipment which spans several decades, and a live classroom to try your hand at programming in BBC Basic (that was certainly a trip down memory lane for us). I had the most interesting conversation with a very lovely lady (Ruth?) who had been one of the 'wrens' responsible for operating the Bombe decoding machines. If you have a half day to spare, and the inclination to find out where the techology you use today came from, go visit this museum; you'll be fascinated.

Slide Rules! I never knew there were so many different ones. Oh, and there was lots of computer stuff. We had a fantastic tour guide and he and the gentlemen manning the Colossus, the Bombe and the Heath Robinson were amazing and managed to answer about 99% of our eleventy million questions.

Loved all of it and learned so much. Some beautiful equipment in there and very jealous of the volunteers there!

Thank you so much for the informative tour and visit we had on Thursday this week. I've been looking forward to visiting for years now and to see so many machines functioning was amazing. There are some beautiful machines and displays and the tour was excellent. Keep up the good work! I would volunteer but I live on the Isle of Man! I've been interested in older legacy technology for years and it was a real pleasure to be able to get hands on with them, including playing colossal cave adventure!

If you have an interest in computers you'll love it. Plenty of history with a working colussus and the oldest working computer (the WITCH), lots of old home computers for a trip down memory lane, and then a range of video games from over the years. Friendly & enthusiastic volunteers. Show your support by visiting :)

I was struck on leaving the museum, that there can't be many places that have 'antiquity' on display that is only 20 years old! Of course, modern computing is only 70 years old, but it is quite shocking to see how far we have come in such a short time. Never in human history have our advances demonstrated such logarithmic acceleration. From the Colossus rebuild to the Heath Robinson, the Tunney machine to my first computer, the Commodore 64, and onward to today, the museum really brought that home for me. Incredible. Well worth a visit. This is a place that will grow and grow, fed by our insatiable desire for more and more computing power. I truly believe that, in my lifetime, computers will become sentient. I may have lost you there, but this place will show how it happened.

I love this site! Brings back a lot of programmer experience I learned from my most talent CEO in the late 80s. I was fortunate. He taught me everything there is to know about computers and programming :)

I attended this museum yesterday as a relaxed opening with my autistic son. It was very refreshing to be met with staff who had an idea of his struggles, offering the use of headphones and warning us of noise areas and pointing out chill out zone. All the staff were very knowledgeable and helpful. We all really enjoyed it. He was in his element having long in depth conversations about computers and coding. It's only small and not fancy but still very interesting and we'll worth a visit. I particularly enjoyed the retro gaming area.

Brilliant museum. Went with my husband and our 18 year old and 15 year old sons. We all thoroughly enjoyed looking at the old equipment (us, old enough to remember using some of it, our kids amazed at the size of most of it!) The games console area was a bit hit, along with the VR goggles and the BBC Micro classroom. Highlight of the whole visit was meeting John and his cipher machines. Not only did we get to have a proper look at an Enigma machine out of a glass case but he even let us all have a play with it! Definitely worth a visit.

Best museum on the planet, it blows my mind that my childhood is already an exhibit. LOL

Awesome place highly recommend going.

An absolute gem of a museum. It's not glitzy, shiny or slick; but the range of authentic exhibits and the passionate enthusiasm of the staff set this place apart from other nearby museums. My xbox-spoilt kids loved the talks on the early code-breaking computers and getting hands-on typing messages onto punch-tape and playing a green screen text adventure. I loved whooping their arses on manic miner and chuckie egg.

Would love to come as see the Museum. Was in Hardware design back in 60's and did have the 1st prototype board hand wired Computer Technology Ltd (Iann Barron) Modular One Computer, some how it got lost in all my collections of electronic stuff when I moved to Australia. It had early 8 pin round IC's mounted on vero pins drilled into a piece of Paxolin panel. Would have been built in a House in Luton before the company moved to a factory in Hemel Hempstead when I joined them as employee No 45.

Worth seeing but you could miss it as it’s behind the Bletchley Park entrance where they charge £18.50 whereas NMC charge £7.50.



But it’s a cool place great historically important artifacts and lots of other rooms to take you into that nostalgic moment of computers and equipment from yesteryear, some recently used too



The people who give talks and explain the equipment are top notch too, with fantastic enthusiasm it’s worth the visit, I want to come back again!!

Visited today and found it really good and interesting. Staff were absolutely brilliant and really knowledgeable. I like their friendliness to talk to you while you view the exhibits and their passion for their subject was really good to see.

Took my 2 lads (13/15) and dad to the museum. Car parking and access straightforward, small cafe etc. This museum is run by passionate and incredibly knowledge people. Not a huge museum but a wonderful place to relive and be educated on so much of computing history including the home computing of late 70s early 80s. My boys really enjoyed it took

Took 10 year old who wanted to play on the computers from

“Last century”. Great value for money, really interesting, very helpful and knowledgeable staff.

This place is awesome - as one reviewer described it "a national treasure". It is run by friendly and knowledge able volunteers and was recently under the threat of being knocked down to make way for more houses. Disgusting in my view and also disgusting it doesn't get the official funding and recognition it so rightly deserves!

This is a fantastic museum. I took my son and we went on the tour, which I highly recommend. It was very informative and our guide was very knowledgeable, and answered all questions with ease, without being patronising!😃👍

The exhibits were fantastic, even if they did make me feel old when I saw computers from my past!😱👍🙀

To do this on the back of volunteers only speaks volumes for the museum.

Go to see this museum and you'll be impressed too!😃👍

So interesting , so much to do and the guides are so patient and knowledgable! And thank you to the lovely staff who let the kids use the Oculus VR ! They’ve had an awesome afternoon! Well worth the entry fee.

Slightly tucked away, on the edge of the Bletchley Park museum/park, but well worth a visit if you have an interest in computers. Not the biggest, flashest, or slickest of museums, but the staff/volunteers, experience and information is brilliant. There's equipment which spans several decades, and a live classroom to try your hand at programming in BBC Basic (that was certainly a trip down memory lane for us). I had the most interesting conversation with a very lovely lady (Ruth?) who had been one of the 'wrens' responsible for operating the Bombe decoding machines. If you have a half day to spare, and the inclination to find out where the techology you use today came from, go visit this museum; you'll be fascinated.

Slide Rules! I never knew there were so many different ones. Oh, and there was lots of computer stuff. We had a fantastic tour guide and he and the gentlemen manning the Colossus, the Bombe and the Heath Robinson were amazing and managed to answer about 99% of our eleventy million questions.

Loved all of it and learned so much. Some beautiful equipment in there and very jealous of the volunteers there!

Thank you so much for the informative tour and visit we had on Thursday this week. I've been looking forward to visiting for years now and to see so many machines functioning was amazing. There are some beautiful machines and displays and the tour was excellent. Keep up the good work! I would volunteer but I live on the Isle of Man! I've been interested in older legacy technology for years and it was a real pleasure to be able to get hands on with them, including playing colossal cave adventure!

If you have an interest in computers you'll love it. Plenty of history with a working colussus and the oldest working computer (the WITCH), lots of old home computers for a trip down memory lane, and then a range of video games from over the years. Friendly & enthusiastic volunteers. Show your support by visiting :)

I was struck on leaving the museum, that there can't be many places that have 'antiquity' on display that is only 20 years old! Of course, modern computing is only 70 years old, but it is quite shocking to see how far we have come in such a short time. Never in human history have our advances demonstrated such logarithmic acceleration. From the Colossus rebuild to the Heath Robinson, the Tunney machine to my first computer, the Commodore 64, and onward to today, the museum really brought that home for me. Incredible. Well worth a visit. This is a place that will grow and grow, fed by our insatiable desire for more and more computing power. I truly believe that, in my lifetime, computers will become sentient. I may have lost you there, but this place will show how it happened.

I love this site! Brings back a lot of programmer experience I learned from my most talent CEO in the late 80s. I was fortunate. He taught me everything there is to know about computers and programming :)

I attended this museum yesterday as a relaxed opening with my autistic son. It was very refreshing to be met with staff who had an idea of his struggles, offering the use of headphones and warning us of noise areas and pointing out chill out zone. All the staff were very knowledgeable and helpful. We all really enjoyed it. He was in his element having long in depth conversations about computers and coding. It's only small and not fancy but still very interesting and we'll worth a visit. I particularly enjoyed the retro gaming area.

Brilliant museum. Went with my husband and our 18 year old and 15 year old sons. We all thoroughly enjoyed looking at the old equipment (us, old enough to remember using some of it, our kids amazed at the size of most of it!) The games console area was a bit hit, along with the VR goggles and the BBC Micro classroom. Highlight of the whole visit was meeting John and his cipher machines. Not only did we get to have a proper look at an Enigma machine out of a glass case but he even let us all have a play with it! Definitely worth a visit.

Best museum on the planet, it blows my mind that my childhood is already an exhibit. LOL

Awesome place highly recommend going.

An absolute gem of a museum. It's not glitzy, shiny or slick; but the range of authentic exhibits and the passionate enthusiasm of the staff set this place apart from other nearby museums. My xbox-spoilt kids loved the talks on the early code-breaking computers and getting hands-on typing messages onto punch-tape and playing a green screen text adventure. I loved whooping their arses on manic miner and chuckie egg.