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The National Museum of Computing
Posted: 05 Jul 2014, 14:28
by imcr
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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Posted: 05 Jul 2014, 15:03
by BlueBär
Somebody should donate them a duster...
Posted: 05 Jul 2014, 16:14
by seebart
Somebody should donate them a duster...
yeah really, it´s a museum !
Nice stuff though.
Posted: 05 Jul 2014, 23:08
by DerpyDash_xAD
dude that place is 15 mins from me by car! Must do.
Posted: 06 Jul 2014, 02:28
by dorkvader
#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)
Posted: 06 Jul 2014, 02:49
by Daniel Beardsmore
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.