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Last Saturday fellow geek Richard Tubb and I travelled down to Bletchley Park for the first ever Vintage Computer Festival here in the UK. I’ve been to the National Computer Museum before but this was a far more interactive experience. The mansion and various marquees around the site were filled with tons of retro systems
I’ve blogged a couple of times about Bletchley Park It’s no secret in the UK that funding for the site is hard to come by For some reason it’s not eligible for lottery funding or any of the government funding that goes into museums and galleries so relies on admissions fees and donations(IBM and PGP
I posted a little while back about the good news Bletchley Park received and said that I’d like to visit and take a look around the National Computer Museum Well as a bit of a weird coincidence I’d completely forgotten that we’d arranged a visit to Milton Keynes on the Saturday immediately after the post
Just saw this on this BBC news site Bletchley gets £50,000 donation The article is pretty comprehensive so I won’t reproduce too much of it here I’m planning on making a trip to check out the National Museum of Computing soon so was pleased to hear this news today The donations made by IBM and
I first came across the Retro Computer Museum in 2010 when I saw the guys who run it give a presentation at the Vintage Computer Festival. Back then they didn’t have a permanent “home” and could only hold a few open days per year in the village hall in Coalville. Since then they have worked
Back in October last year I wrote a post called “Do Something That Scares You” where I talked about pushing some personal boundaries by speaking at Pecha Kucha Coventry. I should really have called this post “Do Something Really Stupid” as I’m doing it again! This time it’ll be at the Birmingham event on the
Ah…the obligatory end of year, start of year post! This time last year I was writing about how challenging 2010 had been. I’m pleased to report that on the whole 2011 didn’t throw up as many major problems as the previous year. We’ve settled quite nicely into our new house, Bryony’s hearing didn’t get any
The phrase “life changing” is used an awful lot when talking about technology and the Internet in particular seems to get this more than any single item of modern technology. I for one totally believe technology can change lives. When using the the phrase “life changing” in this context though it’s usually meant in the
It was my birthday on Saturday and in true geek style I decided the perfect way to spend my day would be to pay a visit to Bletchley Park. This blog post was intended to be all about my visit but unfortunately I heard some bad news this morning so that’s on hold. Tony Sale
Challenges Right from the beginning of the year there has been a lot to deal with. My wife Bryony had her operation over the Christmas of 2009 with the recovery and switch on happening in the January of 2010. Unfortunately the operation didn’t work out as expected. While from a clinical perspective the operation went
