These Machines Need to be Studied

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Those guys back in the day were nuts !!!!!!!!!!!. Great explanations. The guy knows every bit of the machines.

I remember when I was last there they were still working on fixing the Marconi TAC 28:18 They had a nice gentleman from Russia over to help them figure out why it was not working. If I remember correctly they had discovered fairly recently that one of two diagnostic LEDs was not working, making it hard to find any other issues.

And a Triumph Staaaag at the end!

i'm gonna ask my gp if the nhs will pay for a hypershell for me

I went twice to Bletchley Park + the National Museum of Computing a couple of years ago. I went a great experience 🤩
It’s nice to see that some things have changed because, if I remember correctly , the ICL wasn’t running when I visited. Kinda makes me want to go back. Something that flabbergasted me back then was when I stumbled upon a magnetic memory core. Search this online. Then go to the NMoC to see how tiny that is 🤯
Anyway, thanks for the video, and to everyone who hasn’t be there already, try to make a visit, it’s a paradise for computer history nerds

Glad to see the ICL, great video thanks.

"A team of mostly women"

Wow that's amazing. I wonder why that was the first and last time women were the leaders in any field, craft, profession, or hobby? But it's definitely true, I'm sure.

I went there when I attended VCF UK, I think that was in 2010. It was fantastic, I really must go there again.

Bill Tutte deserves to be on a £100 note: his was a phenomenal intellectual achievement. Cracking a machine by thought alone. And that mural of Tommy Flowers was a delight to see: he ought to be on the £500 note!!

I used to use one of those punch tape teletype machines every day in the early 1980s. We had a couple of NCR mainframes where I worked, but we also had an older earlier NCR System 75 used mostly for wages and a couple of bits of housekeeping. I loved it – it didn't have a screen, just a golfball typewriter, and a load of tactile switches, dials and flashing lights, plus a punch tape reader – hence why I used a teletype every day.
I would have to manually type out a small punch tape just to boot the machine up.
There's something really lovely about twisting dials and manually toggling switches. This might be part of the reason why I have so many synthesizers now.

14:11 This is what my mum hears when I try to explain how to switch the TV over from HDMI 1 to HDMI 2

Dear God, I would seriously love to try out one of those exoskeletons.
I've got spina bifida myself so walking, bending, carrying and all that is very difficult. Also I've done various bits of work with disabled groups over the years, especially at music festivals. I'd love to be able to get my hands on one not just to see how it works out for me, but to offer feedback to others who it might apply to. It'd be bloody awesome for a load of people who have trouble plodding round Glastonbury for instance.

A wizard did it. Got it!

This museum is one of the most fascinating pieces of education that anyone can ever have. I visited the place a year before the Worldwide Case Of Sniffles, as part of a trifecta of museum visitations – the others being Bletchley Park itself, and an independently run amateur radio museum housed inside the park complex. I urge anyone to visit these places at Bletchley, the home of the Codebreakers – and the Loudmakers (because Marshall amps have their HQ there as well).

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Oh you went there!

I still work on the VME operating system that would have been running on the ICL 2900 series mainframes, it runs emulated on Linux nowadays though. It is in it's final few years now, but that's a pretty good run for an OS that has existed since the mid 70's.

start of the video feels like, you entered a new area in old game (like hl1) and the npc takes a while to realize "ah time to execute the animation"

Added to the list. Planning to head to the UK to see all these computing museums in a few years. 👍

That place would have to throw me out. Yes, I have a machine that has 32 64-bit CPUs, all with floating point units, multithreading, and up to 5GHz clock with independent clock per CPU segment… and the MOS 6502/6510 running 8-bits at 1MHz makes me happy! I grew up with Tandy TRS-80s, Commodore PETs and C64s, and Apple IIs, and sometimes it’s nice to just unplug the internet and poke at a simple machine and watch the result on a green phosphor screen.

I am so jealous. I wish I lived close enough to visit there with out a transatlantic flight.