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DigiBarn Events:
Visit to Bletchley Park (Feb 21, 2009)


Bruce Damer with Tony Sale and his team's Colossus Mark II (rebuild)

Thanks Ron and Celine for a lovely day. We were also joined by Celine's brother Dave and by Ray, a DigiBarn fan who lives a mere ten miles away!


Video of Colossus in operation
(recorded by Bruce Damer and Ron Edwards)


Colossus Overview, see directly in YouTube here

Colossus Back side, view directly in YouTube here
 




Colossus Demo with docent, play directly in YouTube here

Audio Segments of Guided Tour
(by our guide Rick Miers)

09-02-21-BletchleyParkTour-1.mp3
BletchleyParkTour-1.mp3
09-02-21-BletchleyParkTour-10.mp3
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09-02-21-BletchleyParkTour-11.mp3
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09-02-21-BletchleyParkTour-12.mp3
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09-02-21-BletchleyParkTour-13.mp3
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09-02-21-BletchleyParkTour-14.mp3
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09-02-21-BletchleyParkTour-15.mp3
BletchleyParkTour-15.mp3
09-02-21-BletchleyParkTour-16.mp3
BletchleyParkTour-16.mp3
09-02-21-BletchleyParkTour-2.mp3
BletchleyParkTour-2.mp3
09-02-21-BletchleyParkTour-3.mp3
BletchleyParkTour-3.mp3
09-02-21-BletchleyParkTour-4.mp3
BletchleyParkTour-4.mp3
09-02-21-BletchleyParkTour-5.mp3
BletchleyParkTour-5.mp3
09-02-21-BletchleyParkTour-6.mp3
BletchleyParkTour-6.mp3
09-02-21-BletchleyParkTour-7.mp3
BletchleyParkTour-7.mp3
09-02-21-BletchleyParkTour-8.mp3
BletchleyParkTour-8.mp3
09-02-21-BletchleyParkTour-9.mp3
BletchleyParkTour-9.mp3

Photos by Bruce Damer

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Bruce Damer and Tony Sale
in front of the Colossus
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Entrance to Block B
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Bruce (that's me) by Block B
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Signage
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View of the Mansion
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"The Mansion"
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Period roadster
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Nick Miers, our guide
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Nick Miers showing how central
Bletchley is located for
covert operations
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Bletchley Park Post Office
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Stamps honoring WRENS
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Main entry gate for BP
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Memorial to Polish support for
British Ware effort at BP
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A "Hut"!
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Hut 1
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Entry to Hut 3
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Mockup of "Bombe"
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Nick Miers explaining
the operations of the Bombe
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Matching letter sequences
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Part of the bombe rebuild project
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Harrier
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View of Colossus:
paper tape input at 30 Mph
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Various bits of Colossus Mark 2
Rebuild Project
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Rick Miers showing
Lorenz machine
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Pin wheels on Lorenz machine
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Colossus Mark 2 Rebuild Project
Described
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Printer presenting results
from runs of Colossus
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Back of the Colossus,
valves for computing position of wheels
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Fan cooling the valves
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Bruce Damer and Adam Bradley
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Bruce Damer & Adam Bradley (again)
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Adam Bradley with Elliot system
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Slide rule display
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Baby EAI analog system
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EAI TR-48 Analog Computer
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BBC Micro
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Working home/game micros
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Williams Tube
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Business micros display
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Xerox 860
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Kevin Murrell posing by the new
Development of Personal Computing
gallery
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New TNMOC display area
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Kevin Murrell in new gallery
(under construction)
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Colossus Mark 2 Rebuild
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Cliff Horrocks by Colossus
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Colossus Mark II
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Bruce and the Colossus!
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.. and no I didn't have anything
to do with this!
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Cliff Horrocks adjusting the Tape
Reader on Colossus
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Colossus Tape, runs at 30mph!
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Discarded (burnt out) valvles
(vacuum tubes)
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Young Chili Edwards sporting
16GB of RAM on a stick
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... More memory than ever existed
in the world up to the end of WWII
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British Engineering
meets British Weather
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Entrance to Hut where
Bombes operated

Ron Edwards and Celine Llewellyn-Jones Pictures

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The four of us on the way from the Colossus and Hut 3

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In front of Hut 3
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Phil Hayes showing Colossus
to DigiBarn's Bruce Damer
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CRT Tube out of the IRIS radar system
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The Elliott 803 Film Handler
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The Elliott 803 system
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PDP 11/34 Blacknest System
on which DigiBarn founder
Bruce Damer first learned to
compute!
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Colossus teletype
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Bruce Damer, Phil Hayes in back
of Colossus
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Wiring in back of Colossus
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IRIS Radar System Monitors
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Elliott 803 tape system
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Data on 35mm Elliott 803 film
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See Also:


Bletchley Park, National Codes Centre, Home of the Codebreakers
Web Site


The National Museum of Computing Web Site

Stuart Gold's original 2002 visit to Bletchley Park

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