On the way back from my holiday in Devon, I took the opportunity to pop into the Museum of Computing in Swindon. The museum is
Tag: Retro
Poll: Have you ever restored a vintage computer?
Built by engineer Tommy Flowers in 1943, the Colossus computer was the first digital, programmable, and electronic computing device. The machine was used by British code breakers during World War II to help decipher messages encrypted with the German Lorenz SZ40/42 machine.
Cassette 50: the interview
I found this interesting interview with one of the developers who had one of his games included in the Cassette 50 games tape. I’m pretty
The Centre for Computing History gets a BCL Susie
Last week, The Centre for Computing History added a BCL Susie to the museums collection BCL Susie (Stock Updating Sales Invoicing Electronically) used a magnetic
RISC OS on the Bush IBX200 Internet.tv box
Thanks to the Peter(fibble) over at the stairwaytohell.com BBC Micro forums, he gave The Centre for Computing History a Bush IBX200. The internet service hosted by Bush and Virgin.net is no longer available – so the box is quite useless…. or is it?
RCM Gaming Event / Open Day – October 31st 2010
RCM are proud to announce their 5th Retro Gaming Day Venue is:- The Institute, Main Street, Swannington, Coalville LE67 8QL Date and Time:- Sunday 31st October 2010
Addition – BBC Model A 16k
Managed to pick up a rather special machine last week – a BBC Model A. It looks like this one has not been upgraded as
Sinclair ZX80 playing Space Invaders at VCF 2010
Here is a video of a real Sinclair ZX80 computer playing Space Invaders at the Vintage Computer Festival 2010 at Bletchley Park. You can see that the screen does not flicker when a key is pressed.
Vintage Computer Festival 2010 is this weekend!
This weekend (19th and 20th June) sees the Vintage Computer Festival visiting the UK for the very first time.
Addition – Research Machines 380Z
I have been donated a fantastic ‘little’ machine today. I’ts a Research Machines 380Z. This machine is based on the Z80 CPU running at 4mhz.