Re: [89attendees] Side trip to see Colossus at the National Museum of Computing?

[Paul Kyzivat <[e-mail]>]

Rob,

I'd really like to join. But I have a session ending at 1:20 that I 
really can't miss. I guess your schedule is a little too tight for me to 
be confident of making. (Especially since I'm a neophyte at getting 
around London.) (In *theory* if everything went right I could probably 
make your schedule. But things like that rarely go that right for me.)

If there are really 3 trains per hour, would it make sense for me to 
take the train after the one you plan, and "catch up" with you all at 
the TNMOC?

BTW, I was really impressed by the Babbage Difference Engine #2 at the 
Science Museum. With a printer no less! (Yes, it was *built* in the 
1980s, but the design was original.) I wish they would demonstrate it 
operating!

	Thanks,
	Paul

On 3/1/14 11:03 AM, Rob Pickering wrote:
> On 27/02/2014 09:44, Rob Pickering wrote:
>> The fantastic folks at TNMOC have very kindly offered to open up and
>> provide a tour specially for any IETF attendees that want to see
>> Colossus and the rest of their collection whilst in London.
> The choice that most people indicated that they could make is Friday
> afternoon (23 vs 17, 11 or 9 for the others).
>
> I've therefore let TNMOC know that we'd like to take them up on Friday
> 7th in the afternoon.
>
> Sorry if you were one of the 10 or so folks that couldn't make it then.
>   Other public opening times are at:
> http://www.tnmoc.org/visit/opening-times (basically Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu
> afternoons for the whole museum).
> To visit them take the Circle Line for three stops from Edgware Road to
> Euston Square station. Walk out of the station and take a left for one
> block to Euston rail station. There are 3-ish direct London Midland
> trains an hour to Bletchley and it is then a short walk over the road to
> Bletchley Park. When you get there, you have the choice of paying £15
> entrance to the Bletchley Park Museum to see their collection of WWII
> memorabilia, or skipping this and proceeding directly to TNMOC where it
> will cost you £2 to see colossus, or £5 to tour the whole collection at
> your leisure. Just tell the folks at the gate that you want to visit TNMOC.
>
> Working plan at the moment is to meet at Euston Station at 14:00 on
> Friday to catch the 14:13 train out to Bletchley. This takes 37 minutes
> and then it is a short walk across the road to Bletchley Park.
>
> If you would like to come and haven't signed up yet that's fine, I would
> have thought the max reasonable number is probably about 30 in one visit
> so just add yourself to:
>
> https://doodle.com/7cpwbxeq84p7pkv6
>
> If you have signed up and can't make it *please* remove yourself so that
> I have a reasonable idea of numbers. I'll also figure out some food and
> beverage options at some point if there is enough interest.
>
> --
>      Rob.
>
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