BBC Domesday Project

Re:BBC Domesday Project by david-given on Friday February 12, 2016 @03:52AM (#11085997)

If you're visiting London, head north on the train for about 30 minutes and visit the museums at Bletchley: Bletchley Park itself, which documents the British WW2 codebreaking effort, and is amazing, and next door to it the National Museum of Computing, which has samples of basically every computer ever made, most of which you can play with, and which is amazing. (They have a working decatron decimal-based computer! Which you can play with! https://goo.gl/photos/FiTQAM8VkPknCAJR7)

But they also have a BBC Micro lab, complete with a Domesday Disc setup. Which you can play with. It's surprisingly usable.

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Re:BBC Domesday Project by ErrantX on Friday February 12, 2016 @06:29AM (#11086541)

The NMC is a hidden gem. They let you pay a reduced entry fee to see the Heath Robinson machine and Colossus (which is what everyone visiting Bletchley Park wants to see). I've always thought that was a shame because so many people don't get to see the rest of the museum (which is mad, and brilliant).

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