My second visit to The National Museum Of Computing was a lot more formal, press conference, lunch and a tour, again it was fantastic. Although my journey had to start at 5.30am it was well worth it. This time around I also got to meet several of the other enthusiasts involved in the museum in some way. Both PGP and IBM were there and gave a considerable donation to the museum which is excellent. The tour was great this time by Tony Sale who gave us a breakdown of the workings of the Bombe and Colossus, and explained the Tiltman break.

It was good to see not only so much enthusiasm from the people involved, but also from the press who showed up in great numbers to cover the event. Again I got to see more of the Elliot 803 and got to hear about the what I believe is called the “Sirius” which makes different sounds depending on what area of the hard drive is being accessed, which definitely sounds like something to research.

I was quite nervous in that only twenty minutes before the press conference, I was tipped off that they would be mentioning my involvement with TNMOC, which was also very exciting. Overall it was a very good, and hopefully many many more to come thanks to PGP and IBM.

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