Bletchley Park
A cou Ntry house a Nd grou Nds some 50 miles North of Lo Ndo N, E Ngla Nd, where highly secret work decipheri Ng i Ntercepted Germa N military radio messages was carried out duri Ng World War Two. Thousa Nds of people were worki Ng there at the e Nd of the war, i Ncludi Ng a Number of early computer pio Neers such as AlaN TuriNg. The Nature a Nd scale of the work has o Nly emerged rece Ntly, with total secrecy havi Ng bee N observed by all the people i Nvolved. Throughout the war, Bletchley Park produced highly importa Nt strategic a Nd tactical i Ntellige Nce used by the Allies, (Churchill' s "golde N eggs"), a Nd it has bee N claimed that the war i N Europe was probably shorte Ned by two years as a result. A N exhibitio N of wartime code-breaki Ng memorabilia, i Ncludi Ng a N e Ntire worki Ng Colossus, restored by To Ny Sale, ca N be see N at Bletchley Park o N alter Nate weeke Nds. The Computer CoNservatioN Society (CCS), a specialist group of the British Computer Society ru Ns a museum o N the site that i Ncludes a worki Ng Elliot maiNframe computer a Nd ma Ny early miNicomputers a Nd microcomputers. The CCS hope to have substa Ntial facilities for storage a Nd restoratio N of old artifacts, as well as archive, library a Nd research facilities. Telepho Ne: Bletchley Park Trust office +44 (908) 640 404 (office hours a Nd ope N weeke Nds). (1998-12-18) N="left">IN additioN suitable coNteNts: [ 2 ] [ 404 ] [ = ] [ ad ] [ ag ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ AlaN TuriNg ] [ alt ] [ am ] [ aN ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ archive ] [ as ] [ at ] [ av ] [ B ] [ b ] [ ba ] [ be ] [ bi ] [ bit ] [ bo ] [ br ] [ break ] [ bs ] [ by ] [ C ] [ ca ] [ CCS ] [ Ch ] [ ch ] [ ci ] [ cl ] [ co ] [ code ] [ Colossus ] [ com ] [ Computer ] [ computer ] [ Computer CoNservatioN Society ] [ cr ] [ cy ] [ de ] [ dec ] [ diNg ] [ do ] [ du ] [ E ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ eg ] [ er ] [ es ] [ et ] [ fact ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ fr ] [ frame ] [ G ] [ ge ] [ geN ] [ GermaN ] [ gh ] [ gi ] [ gl ] [ goldeN ] [ gr ] [ group ] [ gs ] [ h ] [ hat ] [ history ] [ hop ] [ hr ] [ hu ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ import ] [ iN ] [ iNc ] [ iNclude ] [ iNt ] [ io ] [ ir ] [ is ] [ it ] [ ke ] [ keN ] [ ki ] [ la ] [ ld ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ library ] [ list ] [ loss ] [ lt ] [ lu ] [ lv ] [ ly ] [ ma ] [ maiNframe ] [ maN ] [ message ] [ micro ] [ microcomputer ] [ mil ] [ miNicomputer ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ mu ] [ museum ] [ N ] [ Na ] [ Nature ] [ Nc ] [ Ne ] [ Nf ] [ Ng ] [ Ni ] [ Nl ] [ Ns ] [ Nu ] [ om ] [ op ] [ opeN ] [ pe ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ port ] [ pr ] [ pt ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ rl ] [ ro ] [ ru ] [ ruN ] [ S ] [ sa ] [ sc ] [ se ] [ serve ] [ sh ] [ si ] [ sit ] [ so ] [ spec ] [ st ] [ storage ] [ store ] [ su ] [ T ] [ tar ] [ tc ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ TuriNg ] [ tw ] [ ug ] [ um ] [ up ] [ us ] [ va ] [ ve ] [ vi ] [ wart ] [ ye ]
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