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If you've not been, it's well worth a visit. Just spent the weekend there. It's a long trip from Devon though, certainly not a day-trip, but well worth it! (We went to Cambridge on Friday afternoon, stayed with friends there and went with them to Bletchley, then stayed in a B&B on the Saturday night, then home today)
The computer museum was fascinating - some really odd stuff - including an Elliot 902 and a 903 - I had the (mis) fortune to work on an Elliot 903 when I was a student. They also have a Cray Y-MP just sitting forlornly in a room with other assorted "junk"... More PDP11's than you can shake a stick at, some ICL big things, oh and that Colossus things too.
They also have a lab of about 30 BBC B's & Masters with three (count them, three!) video disc players running the original 1985 doomsday software!
We got a personal demo of an Enigma machine too and they were running the rebuilt bombe.
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/They give you a free years pass, so we'll be going back again soon. We didn't actually get a chance to see everything - there's a lot more than just the computers...
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