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A team of volunteers has completed a three-year restoration of the world's oldest working digital computer, the Harwell Dekatron, also known as 'WITCH'. The 2.5-tonne machine, which first entered ...

In the past few months, researchers from the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) have uncovered detailed intelligence of Germany’s Lorenz messages decrypted with the help of the Colossus machine ...

A piece of cybernetic history returned home as a long-lost component of the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the first practical general purpose computers, was returned to ...

The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is celebrating today following the discovery of some of the earliest diagrams of a computer, drawn 60 years ago in an effort to document the world's first ...

The world's first programmable computer, Colossus, is fenced off from visitors to the rest of the wartime codebreaking site in the latest chapter in a dispute between volunteers and management ...

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The Harwell Dekatron or 'Witch', which is said to be the world's oldest computer has been rebooted at the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park, in the UK. It was originally built in ...

Dr. Raymond Bird, the developer of the Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC), has passed away at the age of 101. Announced by The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) via a post to X, the museum said: ...

Ensoft has donated £50,000 to The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC), which will be used to assist in the Museum's development. Tim Reynolds, chairman of TNMOC, said: "Recognition of TNMOC's ...