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Congrats for Guido and Python.. the point I wanted to make is: Oh how much I miss this place!!It's a techie's-over-40-dream-place. So many memories when you walk around there, all the hardward and floppy disks.. such a beauty!!

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If you miss it because you're now in the UK, there's a museum with an impressive collection (especially of the very first machines; EDSAC, WITCH, and Colossus) just outside of London.

http://www.tnmoc.org/

I highly recommend a visit! I went a few years ago and had a great time. It's right at the top of Bletchley Park and only costs a few pounds. It's a bit of a shame that it feels neglected by the main museum (it's a separate area/exhibit/entrance to the main Bletchley Park museum). Easy to get to from London, regular trains run from Euston all day.

I took a bunch of photos when I visited [1], I could've easily spent days there. It's unlike any museum I've been to before, towards the "end" there are lots of rooms with just piles of books and computers you can sit down with for however long you wanted - lots of tactile interaction! It was also wonderful to see machines like Colossus running as well as all manner of oddities like early UNIX systems, air traffic computers and calculators.

[1] https://photos.app.goo.gl/uhYyF3qgRnXtLy183

I loved the games room at the end of the museum. Great way to transition from all the interesting history, from all the invoked thoughts of how high the stakes were for cracking Enigma, to seeing how technology and computers can improve our lives and make us happy.

Fantastic photos!!!! Oh the memories!! Thank you!

I frequently go to London, and it's definitely worth popping to MK for a day just for this!!

Also, a while back CHM did a live event talking to the author of _The Preservation Game: Saving Bletchley Park_: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-preservation-game-h...

Hey now, I'm under 40 and I still get lost in that place for hours. I ended up there at a friend's recommendation the first time I was in San Francisco, and was blown away. Even though we were there for a few hours, it wasn't enough, and I've made it out there every time I'm on the west coast. What a wonderful place.

I miss this place as well! And I am going back there on Saturday :)))

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