Weekly Photo Challenge: Relic (Computing)

A submission to this weeks photo challenge : Relic In this world of modern technology it’s amazing to think how far we have come in 70 years, especially in the last 25 years. Near to where I currently live is Bletchley Park, the secretive home to the world’s first electronically programmable computer ‘Colossus’. This device enabled the British to unscramble the German secret messages and helped for shorten World War Two. The pictures below are of a re-construction of this pioneering machine now a relic of a bygone era.

There is a museum there which is full of computer relics from the recent past.

Various machines of the 1980s

DEC

Laser Disc – about 5x physical size of a DVD

Early Laptop TOSHIBA

Xerox

HP85 Computer

Apple – Lisa

Hard Disc – about 1m diameter

Dragon 32

Early Laptop EPSON

Acorn RISC Micro

Commodore PET and Apple II

WITCH Computer -Worlds oldest working computer

A bank of computers

Acorn RISC Micro

DEC

ZX81

Commodore PET

ZX Spectrum

The Morning After!

T Minus 40

So here we are the morning after the night of Bex Unbirthday Bash /Sleepover. A great evening had by the girls who will not be able to celebrate the real birthday in November. Of course great fun brings with it the devastation of 15 people (us included) in a suburban semi!

There’s a bit of a clean up which will need to happen, but is was worth it and will give Bex some treasured memories to take to Africa.