On 8/1/08 20:30, "Sellam Ismail" <sellam at vintagetech.com> wrote:
View the YouTube clip on this blog posting by Christine Finn:
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/01/top-gear-star-i.html
This is Jeremy Clarkson, some British guy who does a show called "Top
Gear". I'm not familiar with it.
It's an award-winning motoring show that polarises people's opinion on
Clarkson. Some, like me, think he's great and everyone else thinks he's a
<expletive deleted>
But what I want to know is, whose collection is that
in the video? And
why did they allow this psychotic monkey to start going apeshit with a
hammer around all those vintage machines?
That's the old Block H museum at Bletchley Park and to be fair he's only
smashing up a Tecra :) That room is now the Large Machine room of the new
National Museum of Computing and we now have the entire run of H-Block which
is the world's first purpose built computer room that housed the
codebreaking Colossus machines from Jan 1944. Jules will be along soon to
provide links etc that I can never remember!
--
Adrian/Witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer
collection?