Check out the BBC micro:bit now
The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park in the UK is always worth a visit if you want an insight into the pioneering days of computing when thermionic valves and punched tape were the order of the day. The museum shows a number of working rebuilds including the Colossus and Tunny machines used during the ...
The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park in the UK is always worth a visit if you want an insight into the pioneering days of computing when thermionic valves and punched tape were the order of the day. The museum shows a number of working rebuilds including the Colossus and Tunny machines used during the Second World War to decipher messages encoded by the Lorenz SZ42 machines which employed a Vernam stream cipher.
The exhibits are being continually revised so there is always something new to see; the latest rebuild due for completion at the end of the year is an EDSAC machine designed in 1947 by a team led by Maurice Wilkes. The EDSAC was the forerunner of the world’s first business computer, the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) introduced in 1951.
The museum has arranged a series of Summer Bytes events taking place every afternoon in August. If you have children entering year 7 in September you are probably aware they will each be given a BBC micro:bit programmable computing board. Visitors to the museum will have a chance to get their hands on the board before its official release date and compare it with its predecessor; the BBC micro. Go to the events page and click on Summer Bytes to check out all the activities they have planned for you this summer.
The exhibits are being continually revised so there is always something new to see; the latest rebuild due for completion at the end of the year is an EDSAC machine designed in 1947 by a team led by Maurice Wilkes. The EDSAC was the forerunner of the world’s first business computer, the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) introduced in 1951.
The museum has arranged a series of Summer Bytes events taking place every afternoon in August. If you have children entering year 7 in September you are probably aware they will each be given a BBC micro:bit programmable computing board. Visitors to the museum will have a chance to get their hands on the board before its official release date and compare it with its predecessor; the BBC micro. Go to the events page and click on Summer Bytes to check out all the activities they have planned for you this summer.
