Last June I visited TNMoC as an “independent researcher” together with @Revaldinho and John Steele, led by the late Ken Boak aka @monsonite, on a mission to visit their experts and learn more about Ferranti’s Argus 400 and 500 realtime control computers.
Here’s a photo album - the cover shows Ken (left) talking to Steve Kay, who looks after the Ferranti sub-collection at TNMoC.
We saw a teaching model of the Argus 400 and the cabinet holding an Argus 500, some circuit boards and core memories, and some documents which are not, I think, usually on display.
There was a handy little programming reference card:
Of course I couldn’t help taking pictures of other things too - the Marconi TAC is there, and some details of the ICT 1900’s Mill Time meters, and a little more. Explore the album!
I came away with a couple of mugs:
