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)

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

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

Photos by Bruce Damer

Bruce Damer and Tony Sale in front of the Colossus	Entrance to Block B	IMG_0892.jpg	Bruce (that's me) by Block B
IMG_0999.jpg	Signage	IMG_0894.jpg	View of the Mansion
"The Mansion"	Period roadster	Nick Miers, our guide	Nick Miers showing how central Bletchley is located for covert operations
IMG_0902.jpg	IMG_0903.jpg	Bletchley Park Post Office	Stamps honoring WRENS
IMG_0906.jpg	Main entry gate for BP	IMG_0908.jpg	IMG_0910.jpg
IMG_0911.jpg	Memorial to Polish support for British Ware effort at BP	A "Hut"!	Hut 1
Entry to Hut 3	IMG_0916.jpg	Mockup of "Bombe"	Nick Miers explaining the operations of the Bombe
Matching letter sequences	IMG_0921.jpg	IMG_0922.jpg	IMG_0923.jpg
Part of the bombe rebuild project	IMG_0925.jpg	Harrier	View of Colossus: paper tape input at 30 Mph
Various bits of Colossus Mark 2 Rebuild Project	IMG_0932.jpg	Rick Miers showing Lorenz machine	Pin wheels on Lorenz machine
Colossus Mark 2 Rebuild Project Described	IMG_0937.jpg	IMG_0940.jpg	Printer presenting results from runs of Colossus
IMG_0942.jpg	Back of the Colossus, valves for computing position of wheels	Fan cooling the valves	Bruce Damer and Adam Bradley
Bruce Damer & Adam Bradley (again)	Adam Bradley with Elliot system	Slide rule display	Baby EAI analog system
EAI TR-48 Analog Computer	BBC Micro	Working home/game micros	Williams Tube
IMG_0957.jpg	Business micros display	Xerox 860	Kevin Murrell posing by the new Development of Personal Computing gallery
New TNMOC display area	Kevin Murrell in new gallery (under construction)	Colossus Mark 2 Rebuild	Cliff Horrocks by Colossus
Colossus Mark II	Bruce and the Colossus!	.. and no I didn't have anything to do with this!	Cliff Horrocks adjusting the Tape Reader on Colossus
IMG_0972.jpg	IMG_0973.jpg	Colossus Tape, runs at 30mph!	IMG_0975.jpg
IMG_0978.jpg	Discarded (burnt out) valvles (vacuum tubes)	Young Chili Edwards sporting 16GB of RAM on a stick	... More memory than ever existed in the world up to the end of WWII
IMG_0989.jpg	IMG_0992.jpg	IMG_0993.jpg	British Engineering meets British Weather
IMG_0996.jpg	Entrance to Hut where Bombes operated

Ron Edwards and Celine Llewellyn-Jones Pictures

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

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Phil Hayes showing Colossus to DigiBarn's Bruce Damer	21022009690.jpg	21022009691.jpg	21022009692.jpg
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21022009701.jpg	CRT Tube out of the IRIS radar system	The Elliott 803 Film Handler	The Elliott 803 system
21022009706.jpg	PDP 11/34 Blacknest System on which DigiBarn founder Bruce Damer first learned to compute!	21022009708.jpg	21022009709.jpg
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21022009898.jpg	21022009899.jpg	21022009902.jpg	Colossus teletype
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feb2009 136.JPG	feb2009 145.JPG	Bruce Damer, Phil Hayes in back of Colossus	Wiring in back of Colossus
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IRIS Radar System Monitors	Elliott 803 tape system	Data on 35mm Elliott 803 film	feb2009 169.JPG

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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