The National Museum of Computing

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Turing's 'Giant Brain': The Pilot Model ACE Story

As WWII ceased, according to the BBC, renowned mathematician Alan Turing ‘hid himself away’ in the Government Communications Centre of the Foreign Office (Hanslope Park). Here in the Buckinghamshire countryside he put together his design of an electronic stored program computer.

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History of Computing

The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, UK, houses the world's largest collection of functional historic computers, including the Colossus, the world’s first electronic computer, and the WITCH, the world's oldest working digital computer.

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How the Microcomputer Changed History: The Legacy of the BBC Micro

The BBC Micro emerged at a tipping point; it was not unique in bringing computing into our homes and schools, but crucially aimed to make computer programming accessible to all. For a whole generation, the BBC Micro was their very first interaction with the silicon chip.

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Punched Card Machines

For almost fifty years, the Hollerith punched card held the majority of the world’s known information and was the primary method of storing, sorting and processing data.