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Three Witches’ reunion

Posted March 7, 2018March 7, 2018by Over Lord

‘Art is made to disturb, science reassures.’ George Braque Three Witches – one scientific and two artistic – have been brought together for a public …

The first Grand Digital computer race won by a nine-year-old programmer

Posted February 20, 2018February 20, 2018by Over Lord

A race of computers spanning eight decades was won by a BBC micro:bit operated and programmed by a nine-year old student. The Grand Digital computer …

Three Witches Exhibition at The National Museum of Computing

Posted February 1, 2018February 19, 2018by Over Lord

Computer art takes on an unusual perspective at The National Museum of Computing in February as two huge and colourful paintings created three decades apart …

Old-school computer mesmerises today’s students

Posted December 5, 2017December 5, 2017by Over Lord

The WITCH computer celebrates five years as a returning teacher Having defied the scrapyard on three occasions, the world’s oldest working digital computer is celebrating …

WITCH lives again!

Posted October 31, 2016October 31, 2016by Over Lord

The incredible story of the WITCH, the world’s oldest working digital computer that has risen from the dead on three separate occasions, is told in …

The world’s greatest scavenger hunt descends on Summer Bytes

Posted August 9, 2016August 9, 2016by Over Lord

The Summer Bytes festival at The National Museum of Computing has had a flurry of strange requests from across the globe. Self-confessed scavengers have wanted …

WITCH Portrait rediscovered in Manchester

Posted March 2, 2016March 1, 2016by Over Lord

This is an amazing find and only after a few months of searching. The lost Portrait of a dead WITCH (Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing …