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Re:Core War Tournament – Spring 2014 by willvarfar on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @11:38AM (#7805002)
That museum, and the adjacent Station X Bletchley Park are somewhere I am really longing to visit. Anyone been?

I remember corewars... It was old when I started playing and making genetic programming entries for it :). My algos never beat the humans though.

Re:Core War Tournament – Spring 2014 by timthorn on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @12:56PM (#7805432)
The museum is not adjacent to Bletchley; Cambridge is about 40 miles away. You might be thinking of The National Museum of Computing which is on the Bletchley Park campus, but the Centre for Computing History is a different concern entirely.

But they're all worth a visit. :)

Re:Core War Tournament – Spring 2014 by impomatic on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @01:02PM (#7805473)
There are also a couple of other computer museums open to the public in the UK, one in Swansea, the other in Leicester. I think there's also one in York which you can visit by appointment only.
Re:Core War Tournament – Spring 2014 by marktangotango on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @01:07PM (#7805512)
I remember reading about Core Wars in the Scientific American article back in 84. To say it blew my mind was an understatement. I was 13, Tron had come out in 82, wow what time to start in computing. Anything seemed possible.