Uploaded May 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park houses a unique collection of computers. Our expert team have maintained, restored and rebuilt some of the most important systems in Britain's business, war-time and personal computing history.
You can't see our amazing collection during Covid-19, but you can speak to the experts who'd usually be on hand in our galleries as TNMOC is running a series of online video Q&As.
In this video our team try to answer the question of why the British lost out to the Americans in the home computer market.
To ask a question, please do so on Twitter using the #askTNMOC hashtag.
If you would like to support us through these challenging times, please consider purchasing some our of special merchandise at our online shop tnmoc.org/tnmocshop
Photo credit:
IBM 5150 by Boffy B, from Wikipedia Creative Commons (IBM_PC_5150.jpg), licensed under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park houses a unique collection of computers. Our expert team have maintained, restored and rebuilt some of the most important systems in Britain's business, war-time and personal computing history.
You can't see our amazing collection during Covid-19, but you can speak to the experts who'd usually be on hand in our galleries as TNMOC is running a series of online video Q&As.
In this video our team try to answer the question of why the British lost out to the Americans in the home computer market.
To ask a question, please do so on Twitter using the #askTNMOC hashtag.
If you would like to support us through these challenging times, please consider purchasing some our of special merchandise at our online shop tnmoc.org/tnmocshop
Photo credit:
IBM 5150 by Boffy B, from Wikipedia Creative Commons (IBM_PC_5150.jpg), licensed under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
