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TNMOC-Newsletter-Q2-2014.Pdf InSync News desk ummer Bytes is upon us. From TNMOC’s You Tube channel is 26th July to 2nd September, expanding with some fascinating Featured Machine Sthe whole Museum is open videos. Recent additions include every day from 11am to 5pm with two videos of TNMOC volunteers. digital fun and games for all the Machine People was made by a family. See page 16 for more details group from Queen Mary University and keep up-to-date on the web at of London and a video on two www.tnmoc.org/bytes EDSAC volunteers has been made by David Allen. Summer Bytes is being supported by Bloomberg and there will be There are now 13 videos tracing some fascinating special events the development of the EDSAC including a retro games weekend, project. The latest one gives a creating your own special effects great overview of progress by and a look back at effects pre-GCI Andrew Herbert and a first switch- with Mat Irvine of Blake’s 7 props on event is planned for the autumn. fame. At the beginning of September, The TNMOC shop has been watch out for an announcement of refurbished and is beginning to stock sponsorship from Ocado lots of new merchandise. An Technology to introduce youngsters example of the new items will be a to coding. reproduction of the Colossus infographic that appeared in The We welcome your suggestions Times earlier this year. and comments. Contact us via After the highly successful Colossus [email protected] Robinson at 70 event in February and the May or via regular post to: There’s a new project at TNMOC: to BBC TV One Show programme on recreate the Robinson. the Colossus veterans, more InSync Editor Colossus veterans and relatives Robinson was an early attempt to have made contact with the The National Museum of mechanise code-breaking and pre- Museum. We plan another reunion Computing dated Colossus. It wasn’t entirely event for September. satisfactory because it broke down a Block H lot, so the team has the odd task of The Winter Lecture Series is taking Bletchley Park reconstructing a machine that doesn’t work that well! shape and places for some of the Milton Keynes lectures are about to go on sale — Progress can be seen in the Tunny see p10 and the website for details. MK3 6EB gallery. Connecting with the Museum of Computing Keep up to date with the latest information from the museum by visiting our various social media and website presences. The handy QR codes below will connect you to our website, Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, Flickr and YouTube sources. If you are reading this newsletter on a computer or tablet device, the you can tap on the QR codes below or if you are reading a printed version, then you can scan these codes with a QR reader on a smart phone or tablet device. TNMOC also has an iPhone navigator app that is a great introduction to the experiences in store if you visit the museum. More details can be found later in this edition of inSync. QR scanners are readily available from your app store (iTunes, Google Play, Windows phone stores). Just search for and install a free QR code reader and start using these handy codes: TNMOC newsletter 2 Q2 2014 n 4th June 2014, a Memorial Service for Capt Jerry ORoberts MBE was held in St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square, London. The achievements of Captain Raymond "Jerry" Roberts MBE, code breaker in the Testery were recalled in a touching Memorial Service led by the Reverend Katherine Hedderly. Professor Susanne Kord, Lord Charles Brockett (pictured above)and Sir rofessor Brian Randell, who John Scarlett spoke of Jerry's work and achievements through a long life brought news of Colossus to that passed from linguist, code breaker, war crimes investigator, market Ppublic view in 1975, visited research entrepreneur and culminated in his tireless campaign to ensure China recently to talk about that the code breakers of Bletchley Park would be remembered by future uncovering Colossus. Visiting generations. Beihang University in Beijing with his wife Liz, he faced a Colossal Jerry's fondness of classical music was reflected in the Choir's singing of surprise. We do hope the poster Mozart's Laudate Dominium and Brahm's Geistliches Lied. didn’t confuse Lorenz with Enigma! Jerry's grandsons, Ben and Sammy Sarfas, performed a remarkable jazz- Professor Randell's talks were very influenced version of We'll Meet Again to a backdrop of a photo montage of well received, although he did face a Jerry's life compiled by his loving wife Mei. rather unusual first question which was actually more of a statement of After a reading from Dora Roberts, a tribute and reading by Jerry and Mei's incredulity: "You wrote to the Prime daughter Chao and closing music of Ode by Brad Mehldau played by Ben Minister!?", exclaimed a Chinese Safras on violin accompanied by Mark Edwards on piano, the congregation student who couldn't begin to retired to the Crypt to reflect on and celebrate the long and hugely imagine writing to the present productive and influential life of Captain Raymond "Jerry" Roberts MBE. Chinese equivalent, Li Keqiang, the Anyone wishing to contribute to a planned annual Jerry Roberts code Premier of the People's Republic of breaking workshop at his old school Latymer Upper School may do so China. Professor Randell wrote to online at http://www.latymer-upper.org/jerryroberts. UK Prime Minister Edward Heath in 1973 seeking permission to reveal We at The National Museum of Computing will greatly miss Jerry's the existence of Colossus. The recounting of his code breaking days and his determination to ensure that request was refused, but two year's the story of the breaking of Lorenz, Hitler's vital secret cipher, is properly later was granted via another route. told. He has been an irreplaceable key source of knowledge for the displays in the Tunny and Colossus Galleries. The existence of Colossus was unknown to the audience but the TNMOC's tribute to Captain Roberts can be found on its website at http:// TNMOC may now see an influx of www.tnmoc.org/news/news-releases/capt-raymond-jerry-roberts-mbe-1920- Chinese visitors. 2014 with a series of video clips of Jerry recalling various code breaking activities. Professor Randell's talk can be seen on You Tube: http:// Leaving Trafalgar Square, some of us wondered if Jerry's vision of a statue www.youtube.com/watch? of Bill Tutte on the Fourth Plinth would ever come to fruition. It should!. v=Yl6pK1Z7B5Q#t=2593. he spectacular Bletchley Park Maze which disappeared at the beginning of World War II has been recreated digitally for visitors to Texplore at The National Museum of Computing on Bletchley Park over the Easter Bytes event. Children of all ages enjoyed activities such as searching for Easter eggs in the maze, building LEGO EV3 Mindstorms robots, using the SketchBot sand table robot to draw their face in the sand, create computer music, see a demonstration of 3D printing by BlackCountryAtelier and got to use the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. The event returns as Summer Bytes over the Summer holiday (see back page) for more details. TNMOC newsletter Q2 2014 3 n the weekend of 14th-15th June, TNMOC took part for the first time in the International red Harris and David Allen (pictured above, photo OMuseums On the Air Weekend and made courtesy Ian Pare) visited TNMOC in June to recall contact with museums in the UK and abroad. Ftheir time on the BBC TV ground-breaking computer literacy programmes of the 1980s. Members of the Milton Keynes Amateur Radio Society set up a radio station in the TNMOC meeting room and David was the producer of the full series of programmes erected a temporary aerial above the museum building and Fred was the presenter on Micro Live. Their combined chemistry on the day showed exactly why the The station used the unique call sign GB2NMC (Golf series proved so popular. Bravo 2 National Museum of Computing) We learned a few secrets of the programme including Over the weekend over 200 stations were contacted, the barely controlled panic that was going on off Sunday being the busiest day. From our initial call at microphone when Micro Live s email was being hacked about 10am Sunday morning a very large number of during a live programme. stations were trying to contact us, amongst them one at the Museum of Flight, North Weald Airfield and a Secret We also saw the emergency prop that Fred would keep Nuclear Bunker! below his seat in case they had to come up with an item to fill a space on the live programme. It was a 5.25” Contact was also made with many French, Belgium and floppy disc with a special tool to enable it to be used on Dutch radio amateurs. Berne, Switzerland was the most both sides. distant contact. David Allen’s talk for the TNMOC Winter Lecture series International Museums on The Air is an annual event is available on the TNMOC channel on You Tube: and has been running since 2002 for more information www.youtube.com/user/tnmoc. see www.radio-amateur-events.org/IMW/. he TNMOC Video Running time Number of views channel on TYou Tube has Harwell Dekatron / WITCH Reboot 00:50:00 1,024,854 several videos tnmoc.org available for free viewing. The table lists the top EDSAC Re-creation Overview 00:07:10 22,959 five most viewed videos: All videos can be PDP8 - Presentation #1 00:02:44 21,974 accessed at: http:// The reboot of the Harwell Dekatron / www.youtube.com/ WITCH computer, the world's oldest 00:21:07 16,297 user/tnmoc/videos working computer Uncovering Colossus - Prof Brian 01:03:22 9,193 Randell TNMOC newsletter 4 Q2 2014 Rediscovered EDSAC diagrams giving us some fascinating insights about how EDSAC was built and show that we are very much in tune with the original engineers: both teams have been exercised by the same concerns! "Importantly, the drawings clearly show that the aim of EDSAC's designer, Sir Maurice Wilkes, was to produce a working machine quickly rather than to create a more refined machine that would take longer to build.
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