The National Museum of Computing

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The National Museum of Computing is a museum documenting the history of the computer sciences based at Bletchley Park in the United Kingdom. The museum opened on July 12, 2007.

On display in the museum are many famous early computing era machines, including the Colossus computer, a machine that helped break German encryption during World War II [1]. The museum includes iconic machines from the 1960s such as the Elliott 803, and an ICL 2966 mainframe from the 1980s. The museum is managed by the CodesAndCiphers Heritage Trust [2]. The cost of the museum was around £250,000 [3].

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  1. ^ UK computer history gets new home
  2. ^ The national museum of computing
  3. ^ Bletchely Park to home 'English Role’ in modern day computing

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