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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Re: Centre for Computing History museum.
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 07:59:03 +0100
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On 10/06/2024 00:42, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 19:48:23 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
> 
>> We spent the last week in Cambridge and I had to of course visit while
>> my better half went shopping. Relatively small but I still managed to
>> spend over three hours there, looking at the various computers (many of
>> which I'd never heard of) and playing some games. So Bomber Jack on the
>> Specky 48k, Drop Zone on the C64, Xenon on the Atari ST (I forgot how
>> much I loved this game), Pong on Binatone and Centipede on an arcade
>> machine plus some others.
> 
> 
> 
>> https://imgur.com/a/computers-qgrXxWW
> 
>> https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/
> 
> If you want a more hands-on experience (albeit smaller and more
> focused on home PCs and gaming devices) there's also the RMC Cave in
> Chaldford.
> 
> https://www.rmcretro.com/
> 

This one does have a lot of hands on experience (playing games) and is a 
mix of home computers, dedicated games machine (arcade and consoles) and 
more historic content.

They also seem to have a focus on the educational side so they have a 
small lab set-up where you can try you hand at programming on BBC 
micros. The Megaprocessor is part of that as it helps explain what goes 
into a computer. Oh and you can play Tetris on it as well.