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Old 11th Jul 07, 05:38 PM
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UK computer history gets new home
*Source: BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6291422.stm)*
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Plans are taking shape to set up a museum that celebrates Britain's role in the origins of the digital age.

The National Museum of Computing will be based at Bletchley Park where World War II code breakers built the first recognisably modern computers.

The museum's centrepiece is the rebuilt Colossus computer that broke high-level German communications during WWII.

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