Bletchley Park - National Museum of Computing

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Our school did a trip to the NMoC at Bletchley Park and I was fortunate to be able to go along.

 

Unfortunately some pictures I took can't be uploaded as students are photographed in them. Apologies if I get something wrong, going when you have "man flu" isn't the best time to take in information.

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This is the Colossus code breaker, it rotates a tape at 30mph to read and clicks ever few seconds.

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The BBC Micro on its 30th birthday it can still do this.....

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Also has one set up in the room with a map on:

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This machine is big, sorry wasn't listening as there were other things to see/touch and play with but it does have an Edugeeker carved into it:

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Then we got to play

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We were also show scientific calculators as well as the famous code breaker machines. The museum is interesting but I would not recommend taking anyone younger than Year 9 there.

 

That will do for now picture wise. It was a good trip, however we took 40 kids on the day we went and ran the trip for 4 days.