The short version
A Bletchley Park museum with working computers, mainframes, Bombe replicas, and Colossus.
From the HackerLinks archive
The National Museum of Computing
A Bletchley Park museum with working computers, mainframes, Bombe replicas, and Colossus.
At a glance:
First seen:2026-09-04
Last seen:2026-09-04
Times seen:1
Website:tnmoc.org
Why it caught our attention
A recent visitor called it fantastic and highlighted its playable working systems.
Where it surfaced on Hacker News
2026-09-04
“It was fantastic. They have a wide variety of working systems that you can play with, from home computers to mainframes, as well as Bombes and the Colossus (used to break the Lorenz cipher), and WITCH.”
plapsley · recommendation · first hand use
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