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“We’ve had some offers to relocate, but we desperately
want to stay in Swindon,” Webb said,
concluding “We always thought it was the right place for the museum
because of the technology in the location.” By which he means the
presence of both Intel and Motorola in the area, earning it the
nickname of Silicon Gorge.
What Simon does not mention, and which could
have a real bearing on the future of the museum, is the fact that a new
National Museum of Computing is being built
within the truly historic setting of Bletchley Park. The museum is
being located within Block H, most famous for being built in 1944 to
house the world's very first digital computers known as Colossus. Code
breaking computers which, most experts would agree, helped determine
the outcome of the Second World War.
With this history behind it, as well as the support of the British
Computer Society and the Codes And Ciphers Heritage Trust, it looks
like the new museum has everything going for it. Exhibits will follow
the development of computing itself right from those Colossus machines
in the 1940s through to the mainframes of the early 1970s and out the
other side of the 1980s personal computing revolution. Eventually there
will be dedicated permanent exhibits covering everything from gaming to
super computing.
Perhaps then, the sensible thing would be to not relocate the UK Museum
of Computing at all, but rather just relocate the exhibits. Donating
the exhibits to the national Museum of Computing would ensure that they
get the public exposure they deserve, rather than just end up gathering
dust in storage.
David Bass
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