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The museum is located on Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. [2] It opened in 2007 [3] in Block H – the first purpose-built computer centre in the world, having housed six of the ten Colossus computers that were in use at the end of World War II. Block H at Bletchley Park, home of The National Museum of Computing
Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. The mansion was constructed during the years following 1883 for the financier and politician Herbert Leon in the Victorian Gothic , Tudor and Dutch Baroque ...
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A statue of Alan Turing, created in slate by Stephen Kettle in 2007, is located at Bletchley Park in England as part of an exhibition that honours Turing (1912–1954). [1] [2] It was commissioned by the American businessman and philanthropist Sidney Frank (1919–2006).
Hut 8 was a section in the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park (the British World War II codebreaking station, located in Buckinghamshire) tasked with solving German naval (Kriegsmarine) Enigma messages. The section was led initially by Alan Turing. He was succeeded in November 1942 by his deputy, Hugh Alexander. Patrick ...
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Hut 7 was a wartime section of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park tasked with the solution of Japanese naval codes such as JN4, JN11, JN40, and JN-25. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The hut was headed by Hugh Foss who reported to Frank Birch , the head of Bletchley's Naval section.
Tony Sale with the rebuilt Colossus computer A team led by Tony Sale began a reconstruction of a Colossus computer at The National Museum of Computing. Anthony Edgar Sale (30 January 1931 – 28 August 2011) was a British electronic engineer, computer programmer, computer hardware engineer, and historian of computing.