{"id":50,"date":"2007-12-20T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/20\/bletchley-park\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T17:33:00","slug":"bletchley-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/bletchley-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Bletchley Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a trip down to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warpedlogic.co.uk\/\">Martyn<\/a> and Em the other week and ended up having a day trip out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bletchleypark.org.uk\/\">Bletchley Park<\/a>, home of the code breakers during World War II. This is the place where the Enigma code was decoded, and the worlds first programmable computer was produced, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codesandciphers.org.uk\/lorenz\/rebuild.htm\">Colossus<\/a>, which has been lovingly rebuilt from eight war time photos and some illegally kept partial circuit diagrams. (It was in England, not America, that the first computer was built. Don&#8217;t let anyone tell you otherwise!) Well worth a trip to see, especially if you are in to computers or anything from the WWII era. There are collections of Churchill memorabilia (one couple&#8217;s personal collection, put on show for everyone), cinematography, and other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bletchleypark.org.uk\/content\/visit\/attractions.rhtm\">similar things<\/a>. Also, the stately house is open for wanderings which may interest people too<\/p>\n<p>Also, getting started at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bletchleypark.org.uk\/\">Bletchley Park<\/a>, is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnmoc.org\/\">National Museum of Computing<\/a>. It isn&#8217;t quite ready for the public yet, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warpedlogic.co.uk\/\">Martyn<\/a>, being of geek persuasion, wanted to volunteer which meant we got a private guided tour around what was happening behind the scenes. The plans that they have for the place look rather impressive, including a room dedicated to british computing. It looks like there may well be quite a bit of hands on exhibits too, including all the home computers running classic games for you to play. I&#8217;m going to make a list of all my old computers (including a very old <a href=\"http:\/\/oldcomputers.net\/compaqi.html\">Compaq luggable<\/a>) to see if I can make any donations. Not holding my breath, but if I can get rid of a couple of items to a good home that will make me happy!<\/p>\n<p>So, if you are ever in the area and want a good day out it is well worth the trip. You can go back at any point within a year of your first visit for free too which I think we probably will do when the computer museum opens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a trip down to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warpedlogic.co.uk\/\">Martyn<\/a> and Em the other week and ended up having a day trip out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bletchleypark.org.uk\/\">Bletchley Park<\/a>, home of the code breakers during World War II. This is the place where the Enigma code was decoded, and the worlds first programmable computer was produced, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codesandciphers.org.uk\/lorenz\/rebuild.htm\">Colossus<\/a>, which has been lovingly rebuilt from eight war time photos and some illegally kept partial circuit diagrams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[75,76,122],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-geek","tag-colossus","tag-computers","tag-museums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/60chequersavenue.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}