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The Centre for Computing history interviews Steve Furber

3rd September 200924th October 2020

This interview with Steve Furber CBE was filmed at Manchester University on 17th August 2009. He talks about his involvement with the Mk14, how he became

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Bletchley Park – E-petition response

26th August 2009

The following article was taken from http://www.number10.gov.uk/page20409 I personally believe Bletchley Park should be in the same league as the Science and Natural History Museums.

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RCM open day featured in Retro Gamer magazine

14th July 2009

The May open day for the Retro Computer Museum has been featured in the latest edition of Retro Gamer magazine.  Click the image below to

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Ultimate 486 PC Update

13th April 20098th January 2023

The ultimate 486 PC now consists of the following hardware… MS-DOS, SCSI drivers and Windows 3.11 installed without any issues. Having the Windows source files

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What if computers went back to the '70s too?

3rd December 2008

(An interesting article from The Register’s Guy Kewney) A Wizard whispers in your ear: “The password of Sheffield Library Packet Switching Service is ABC1234XYZ.” That

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For your eyes, ears only. Oh, and everyone else’s too.

24th November 200817th September 2018

I like this guy’s desk layout! He’s also made the MMBeeb interface – thats one job on my to-do list http://arduinonut.blogspot.com/2008/11/for-your-eyes-ears-only-oh-and-everyone.html

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Bletchley Park – Website links

8th November 2008

For more info about Bletchley Park, and what they are trying to achieve, make sure you visit their website. The addresses can be found on

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RCM Open Day – 16th November 2008 – Leicestershire

25th September 2008

  RETRO COMPUTER MUSEUM – OPEN DAY 2008 OPEN DAY (One Day Only!) Sunday 16th November 2008 Tickets are now on sale for the Retro

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Bletchley given £57,000 donation

9th September 2008

A bid to save Britain’s computing heritage has been given a $100,000 (£57,000) boost by a joint donation from US hi-tech firms IBM and PGP.

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MSN Battle : Console Wars

24th August 2008

What’s the greatest games machine of them all? It’s an argument that’s raged for as long as we’ve had joysticks to waggle and controller buttons

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