Duke of Kent presents Tony Sale with two awards from the Bletchley Park Trust
16 July 2009
During a visit by the Duke of Kent to The National Museum of Computing and Bletchley Park, Tony Sale, a trustee and director of The National Museum of Computing, received two awards from the Bletchley Park Trust.
The first award was for his work on rebuilding Colossus and the second for 16 years’ service as a volunteer at Bletchley Park. These followed his award of an Honorary Doctorate from The Open University in June.
The awards from the Bletchley Park Trust were made by the Duke of Kent on 16 July 2009 when he visited Bletchley Park and toured The National Museum of Computing.
Tony Sale said; “I am delighted and honoured to receive these awards from the Bletchley Park Trust. It is a real pleasure working with the trust and the volunteers of TNMOC to ensure that we do not forget the ground-breaking and hugely important role of the codebreakers of World War II.
“It was also a real pleasure to welcome back the Duke of Kent to The National Museum of Computing. He was clearly impressed at the progress we are making and was fascinated by the recently opened PC Gallery.”
About The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park
The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, an independent charity, houses the largest collection of functional historic computers in Europe, including a rebuilt Colossus, the world’s first electronic programmable computer.
The Museum complements the Bletchley Park Trust’s story of codebreaking up to the Colossus and allows visitors to follow the development of computing from the ultra-secret pioneering efforts of the 1940s through the mainframes of the 1960s and 1970s, and the rise of personal computing in the 1980s. New working exhibits are regularly unveiled and the public can view a rebuilt and fully operational Colossus, a working ICL 2900, one of the workhorse mainframes computers of the 1980s, a slide rule display with devices dating back centuries, and many of the earliest desktops of the 1980s and 1990s in the newly-opened PC Gallery.
The Museum is currently open on Thursdays and Saturdays from 1pm, and on bank Holidays in spring and summer. Groups may visit at other times by arrangement.
For more information, see www.tnmoc.org
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