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Actor, broadcaster and former host of the BBC panel show QI Stephen Fry visits The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. Business MK50 follows in his footsteps and discovers that the history of computing is...


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A few from the 1970s and 1980s continued to run until the turn of the century when the infamous Millennium Bug threatened those early models. However, radical developments in the 1970s were changing the world of computing. Computers were becoming personal and enthusiasts across Milton Keynes would have been building their own kit computers, downloading programs


from audio tapes or even the television and perhaps even writing their own.


As desktop computers became


more available, affordable and user- friendly, they transformed businesses and even schools where the 1980s BBC Micros launched the computing programming careers of students across the land. Since then computing has gone mobile and pervaded every aspect


of the lives of Milton Keynes’ citizens. It is a far cry from those early days of experiment, innovation, secrecy and success that happened in Block H, the first purpose-built computer centre, on Bletchley Park. Today, visitors relive or see for the first time the progress of technology that has transformed the world at The National Museum of Computing in the original home of the Colossus computers.


computer, one of only two surviving today.


01908 374708 www.tnmoc.org operations@tnmoc.org


Block H Bletchley Park Milton Keynes MK3 6EB


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