Virtual Tour

The following series of pictures show a few of the exhibits we already have on display in our galleries.

The museum is expanding steadily and display areas are subject to change, so exhibits shown in the pictures may not always be on display.

Click on any of the images to see a larger version

Large Systems Gallery

ICL 2966 showing disk drives (front) and the mag tape units at the back.		ICL 2966 viewed from the mag tape units showing the consoles (right) and the 5 main controller cabinets (top)		TAC - Transistorised Automatic Computer, used to monitor a nuclear power station
Elliott 803B showing console back left, tape station centre and main processor & memory cabinets right		Elliott 803B console (centre) and paper tape station (right)		Elliott 803B Core store (4K x 40 bits)
Elliott 905 - Large cabinets house PSU's small CPU & Memory		Elliott 905 Console		80 column punch card station

Analogue Computing Gallery

Analogue computer		PDP11 Blacknest system used for seismic monitoring		Solartron mini-space analogue computer
EAI Hybrid digital-analogue computer

Personal Computing Gallery

Hands on personal computers		Iconic PCs on display		PC gallery timeline

Technology of the Internet Gallery (NEW)

Corridor towards the new gallery		Display showing timeline		Corridor of new gallery

Flight Simulator Room

Live feed of air traffic over the south of England. The room also has a voice transmissions from local aircraft.		Just two of the four flight simulator stations

Electronic Office Gallery (closed for refit)

HP 250 desk		Burroughs visible record computer

Harwell / WITCH computer & Air Traffic Control

The Harwell / WITCH dekatron computer from 1951.
The PDP 11 based LATCC air traffic control system		Closer view of the 2 radar display terminals		Radar display showing close up of air traffic

Calculator Cabinets

Part of the calculator collection		Another view of the calculators

Colossus Gallery

Front view of colossus (fish eye)		Rear view of colossus showing just some of the 2,500 valves it uses (fish eye)		Front view showing output teleprinter
Colossus paper tape reader which has a continuous loop of tape reading at 5000 chars/s		Tony Sale fault finding at the rear of one of the machine racks		Tony making adjustments to the patch panel
Close-up of one of the valve racks. Over 2500 valves are used.		Front light display showing progress of decryption.

Tunny & Heath Robinson Gallery

Tunny being assembled		Radio receiver station		Some of the teleprinters used to create paper tapes and transmit messages.

Other areas

Master electo-mechanical pendulum clock. It controls all the clocks in the museum.		The two new slide rule cabinets, the most recent addition to the museum		A view of the second slide rule cabinet