Sandstorm at St Ninian's

Sandstorm at St Ninian's

We crossed the sandy bridge between St Ninian's and the mainland. The Shetland wind picked up, the...

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Fifteen metres in colour

Fifteen metres in colour

Waiting for psionic psunspots

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Escape at Bletchley Park

Escape at Bletchley Park

Deep in the very bowels of BP, a ghostly message flickers out one last message of hope on the...

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Digital Radio goes 8-bit

Digital Radio goes 8-bit

Pixelh8 demonstrates a fine point of BBC Micro chiptunery for Radio 4's Click On programme,...

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The Bletchley Park Storeroom

The Bletchley Park Storeroom

A small selection of the delights in the BP storeroom/workroom in Block H. A PDP 11/70 in...

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Just your workaday Cray

Just your workaday Cray

Bletchley Park has many rooms stuffed with surprises. Here's a late-model Cray, in working condition, waiting for some TLC.

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Pixelh8 gets his cards

Pixelh8 gets his cards

Modern musicians understand the importance of promotion, so here's Pixelh8 helping BBC Radio 4's...

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Armies of Colossus

Armies of Colossus

Part of the rebuilt Colossus codebreaking machine, resident and running at Bletchley...

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Behind the scenes at Colossus

Behind the scenes at Colossus

The Colossus code-breaking computer's Wall Of Death, so-called for its many exciting exposed high voltage buses. Do not touch.

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Captain! The thyratrons!

Captain! The thyratrons!

A huge bank of gas-filled thyratrons, one of the key components in the Colossus code-breaking...

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Tapes, recorded

Tapes, recorded

A skein of paper tapes at Bletchley Park. One of the original data storage media, punched paper...

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Lost art of usability

Lost art of usability

I know Ctrl-Z has the same effect, but how marvellous would it have been if this early idea - the...

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Two meters

Two meters

As iconic (and expensively collectable, darn) as a Mk 2 Bentley, the Avometer Mk 8 was the...

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Is there nothing it can't fix?

Is there nothing it can't fix?

Experts may claim that profoundly clever design and intricate understanding of physics lie behind...

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Style and smarts in modern computing

Style and smarts in modern computing

The mighty PDP-8, harbinger of revolution and John the Baptist to the coming Messiah of...

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Out of control at Bletchley Park

Out of control at Bletchley Park

An old but working Ericsson air traffic control display at Bletchley Park. Not only can it still...

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Data centric

Data centric

An ICL2966 slumbers in the vaults at Bletchley Park. "I'm not allowed to turn it on,"...

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Film at 11

Film at 11

A tape storage unit from Bletchley Park's Elliot 803B. If it looks like a projector, that's because...

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