It was a bit nippy today, but I managed to slide the hairy worm around the museum's front doors, replacing what was left of the old ones. Mrs TDO helped as it was a bit long for just me to wrangle. The door looks a lot nicer now, and the cold draughts will be kept out. #volunteer

When I spend hard earned museum funds, I like to get the best value for money. For £48 I could have bought a "museum" kit of 30 clear identification cubes with labels. Instead I sourced 50 black cubes for £9 and white labels for £3. Looks just as good too! #museum #volunteer

I helped set up the stand and then had a look around. If you live in the Swindon area and are looking for something fun and educational for your kids to do today or tomorrow, get on down to The Deanery!

Ian did a fantastic job with an absolute 'barn find' of a computer which I picked out of the store room for him to refurbish. It needed a full respray, along with plenty of cleaning, soldering, adjusting, and thankfully only a few spare parts.

Starting tomorrow, Sunday 19th May, we are going to trial opening to the public on Sundays. We're looking forward to welcoming you! Sunday 10am until 4pm (last admission at 3:15pm) Adult £5 Children (5 to 16 years) £3 Family ticket (2A+2C) £12 #Swindon #museum #computers

Finally, I found someone selling the single keycap I was missing on my Tandy TRS-80 Model III. Now I just need to find a name badge! #Tandy #TRS80 #Computers #Retro

Can't visit the Museum of Computing on a Saturday? Now is your opportunity to visit! All 4 of these are great machines, but I'll never forget coming home from school to find a brand new CPC464 with colour monitor set up on the dining room table. Such a big upgrade from our ZX81!

Looking for half-term holiday fun for the whole family? We have many hands-on games consoles from the 70's, 80's, 90's and beyond. We are open every day of the school holiday this week. May 25th - June 2nd Sun to Fri - 10am to 4pm Sat - 9:30am to 5pm Family ticket £12 #Swindon

Always make sure your balls are clean and fluff free! #retro #Computing

It really is an amazing storage facility, that even has a conservation area. Currently it's storing over 300k objects! Here are some more photos while I go off to try and find £65m down the back of the sofa to build one of my own! That would solve our museum's storage issues!

A few more checks needed but a new LOPT has fixed this Atari ST monitor for Museum of Computing The HR STVDST-01 TV simulator is a useful tool for confirming the old LOPT was faulty before replacing it. The old LOPT has a strange bulge which could be from a winding breaking down.

Music WITHIN the Star Wars universe that's great to listen to... it's about time. youtu.be/6E7gfpGql7w?fe…

The Museum of Computing would like to thank shortcircuit for organising the amazing RetroFest event in our home town of Swindon. It was a pleasure to collaborate with them and we met so many wonderful visitors and exhibitors. Looking forward to supporting next year's event!

Repost and let's find someone who knows about this fascinating item! #astrowars #hacker

☑️75 litres homebrew cider ☑️Empty bottles ☑️Siphon ☑️Salty snacks ☑️Glass for "QC testing" ☑️Hans Zimmer F1 Movie OST ☑️Zero miles tree to bottle Cheers! 🍻 How's your Sunday going?

👻 Get ready for BYTE NIGHT!!! 🧌 Join us for a night of Halloween-themed retro gaming. Enjoy a high score challenge and additional consoles not normally available to play in the museum. To buy tickets visit: zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketin… #Halloween #RetroGames #Spooky #Swindon

Amazing to think 1970's computers are still out there doing what they were designed for! youtu.be/3QZPHKBcdhk?fe…

Things you never knew existed... "Manhole Cover Grease" Today's maintenance job at the museum was to stop some smells coming from a manhole in the basement. The things I do for the Museum of Computing !

When I find Amiga items in the museum stores that have incomplete info and photos on the Amiga information sites, I always like to help them out. amiga.resource.cx/exp/ashcom508