Thank you to Proton VPN for sponsoring. You can get 70% off at http://protonvpn.com/nostalgianerd ~ Today we're headed to Swindon Museum of Computing. Mainly because I love visiting computer museums, but also because these places need our support; they're doing the hard preservation work here, and without them, all this tech is lost. This is actually the FIRST dedicated computer museum in the UK, impressively, so let's dive in and continue the Computer Museum Quest! Check out my Computer Museums & Places Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnWURbjz3iw&list=PLGh8hUWk1wey247Adg6W6hNi6puS5qlWm ⌚Timings⌚ 00:00 Museum of Computing 05:39 Proton 06:44 Museum Secrets 🔗Video Links🔗 Check out The Museum of Computing in Swindon! https://www.museumofcomputing.org.uk/ YouTube: @museumofcomputing 🏆 Support 🏆 Support my channel, get exclusive videos & perks, as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/nostalgianerd from just $1 🏪 NN Shop & Affiliate Links! 🏪 My eBay Shop: https://nnerd.es/NerdShop (Now Re-open!) My Retro Tech book: http://nnerd.me/HVFtSB (2nd edition is out!) 🍻 Share/Like 🍻 If you wish to share this video in forums, social media, on your website, or ANYWHERE else, please do so! It helps tremendously with the channel! Also, giving a thumb up or down also helps with visibility on Youtube. Many thanks! 📟 Subcribe 📟 Click to Subscribe: https://nnerd.es/2K4TYvX 📱 Join me on Social Media 📱 🐥 https://bsky.app/profile/nostalgianerd.com 🎮 http://www.twitch.tv/nostalgianerd 👱🏼📘 http://www.facebook.com/nostalnerd 📸 http://www.instagram.com/nostalgianerd 🌍 http://www.nostalgianerd.com 🎥 Equipment 🎥 Panasonic Lumix G5 Rode NT-1 Mic Corel Video Studio Ultimate 2020 Corel Paint Shop Pro 2020 📜 Resources 📜 In video links and references are provided where possible. If you believe I have forgotten to attribute anything, please let me know (drop me an email via. the about page on Youtube or send me a tweet), so I can add it here. Apologies if I have missed anything out, it takes time to make these videos and therefore it can be easy to forget things or make a mistake. Errors and omissions excepted. Some material in this video may be used under Fair Dealing / Fair Use. Where under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 (UK: Sections 29 and 30 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988), allowance is made for purposes including parody, quotation, criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, education and research. Fair Dealing / Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.
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The National Museum Of Computing at Bletchley Park is amazing if you want to see computers that filled an entire room.
How about the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge? I haven't seen any new coverage about their collection or displays for a few years.
Ay up me duck!! You'd be very welcome to come and visit us matey :) I've emailed you...! We have 60 hands on / plugged in machines in 6 themed rooms over 2.5 floors. Consider us the "tardis" of computer museums :)
Yay Swindon! Keith is a powerhouse behind this museum and has worked so hard to make it what it is. Lovely to see it on the channel - Neil
Make sure to check out the national museum of computing in the UK too! It houses Bombe, Colossus, EDSAC, and a bunch of others!
The Retro Collective, Stroud UK. A computer/console museum and Arcade Archive downstairs.
I have a boxed, working 1976 Commodore PET 2001 with box and manuals, one owner from new. All I need is a museum that'll consider it. This'll do.
You should definitely visit the Derby Computer Museum. A real hidden gem of a place. Full of nostalgia and run by a set of friendly volunteers:)
There is also a computer museum in Derby
I appreciate your years of being a nerd and showing us around. I just wanted to say thank you.
So where do you recommend I go next? This is where we've been so far: /watch?v=TnWURbjz3iw&list=PLGh8hUWk1wey247Adg6W6hNi6puS5qlWm ~ Thank you to Proton VPN for sponsoring. You can get 70% off at /nostalgianerd
I didn't realise there were so many epic retro museums like this around the UK.. that's my next few bank holiday weekends sorted then!
You know you're old when computers that you used in your 20's have been in museums for over 20 years...
Astro Wars! My mate Rick loaned me his for a week in the 80s (here in NZ) and it was the week no school work was done...well, school work was never done anyway but this actually gave me a reason not to do any.
Remember going there and just sat on a shelf was the manual for a Famicom disk system, the intrusive thoughts in my head were screaming JUST PUT IT IN YOUR BAG NO ONE IS AROUND
I wish I lived closer... I would gladly contribute & volunteer to work there. Having a background in Electronics, Radio, Telephony, & Computers, I'm sure I could put those skills to use. ;) Nice overview, of the museum.
I literally had a Sinclair c5 as a kid lol when I was about 9 years old. My dad was an engineer and a guy gave it to him as his son has used it mess around on. I became another son with it :) just drove it up and down the road :)
Must people at the time the computers, peripherals, accessories and software were released and on sale would never have thought these products and systems would evoke such nostalgia and a desire to return to simpler times of freedom.
I had the opportunity to race Sinclair C5s around a track back in the early 90s. It was at a seaside resort in Cornwall where they had converted a bunch of caged Tennis courts into Go Kart circuit. Only thing was, they had no Karts but somehow managed to acquire a load of C5s and so used them instead. Using the battery power mode and accelerating by the thumb operated button on the handle bar under your legs it was one of the strangest forms of motor racing I have ever experienced 😆
15:25 subtle rickroll...