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The National Museum of Computing
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imcr
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Here are some photos from my visit to the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park last year.
I don't have information for a lot of these boards so feel free to add any input and I'll update the post when I get a chance.
http://www.tnmoc.org/
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I don't have information for a lot of these boards so feel free to add any input and I'll update the post when I get a chance.
http://www.tnmoc.org/
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seebart
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yeah really, it´s a museum !Somebody should donate them a duster...
Nice stuff though.
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DerpyDash_xAD
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dude that place is 15 mins from me by car! Must do.
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dorkvader
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#5 is an ICL: likely uses the ICL switch. not sure if the ICL at #4 uses it though.
2,3 on that racal board use microswitch (honeywell) hall effect switches, I didn't know racal used them (racal is british I think)
2,3 on that racal board use microswitch (honeywell) hall effect switches, I didn't know racal used them (racal is british I think)
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Daniel Beardsmore
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There weren't many British-made switches (the only ones I know of are Alphameric, ITW magnetic valve (US-owned before Devlin bought the tooling), possibly the big MEIs (as Devlin also sold those), and possibly also the rubber band MEIs as some (US?) company reported to me that they got theirs from a company in Britain, before we found out who MEI were) so it's quite normal to see foreign and foreign-owned switches in British computers, e.g. MEI, RAFI, Futaba, SMK. I suspect that some US companies set up production in the UK for cost reduction.