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| Issue 3 - July 2007 | www.tnmoc.org |
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 | Fundraising
Can
you help with our fund raising? Do you have particular contacts who
might be willing to support the museum? Funds at this stage are
absolutely crucial to our survival, giving the museum both security and
stability in its early months and years. One position we believe it
important to fill is that of a full time museum curator to help towards
our accreditation process. While we have enormous support from our
volunteers, we need funds to be able to continue this work on a
professional basis too. Click here for donations | |
 | Icons
We
have almost completed a temporary display called Icons. These are
iconic machines from the 1970s and 1980s - machines that display the
wide range of designs and technologies available to both business and
home computing before the IBM PC arrived on the scene. | |
| Preparing for the ICL2966
The
last newsletter described our plans to display our ICL 2966 mainframe.
At the time, we anticipated that moving the system into the workshop
would be the biggest problem in beginning the restoration process, but
if you can't get the equipment into the room, you need to start
removing walls! We have now taken down a section of wall between the
workshop and the large system room and are back on target. | |
 | Radio intercept and Tunny
We
have almost completed the new display showing the radio intercept
station at Knockholt, the subsequent paper tape preparations and both
the Heath Robinson and Tunny machines. | |
 | BCS @ 50
We
have just held the first day of the British Computer Society's three
day conference celebrating the past fifty years of British computing.
The first day of the conference was held at Bletchley Park, with the
subsequent two days being held in London. We showed the museum
including Colossus, the new Radio intercept and Tunny exhibition, and
the start of the museum galleries to a group of more than 120
conference delegates. It was a rare treat to hear several presentations
from early British computer pioneers at the conference. BCS@50Conference | |
| The National Museum of Computing was visited last week by the technology correspondent of BBC News Online.
We were able to show them the progress we have made, including the
Colossus and Tunny rooms, and the work on the mainframe room. We hope
this will be the start of a regular series charting progress at the
museum. BBC News about the museum
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