Aside from the blog Authors listed in the side bar, there are other valued members of our restoration team who contribute to various parts of the restoration of the machine and operations of the organisation. The full list of team members is below. All team members work on a voluntary basis.
Adam Bradley | Adam Bradley – Adam Bradley – Adam is a multi-talented engineer who’s been involved in the computer history field for over 16 years at The National Museum of Computing. Adam wears many hats, but he mainly runs a tech startup called Oso as well as a specialist document archival & digitisation company called PreservaScan. When he’s not restoring vintage computers or working, he can usually be found sailing around on the Solent. |
Christopher Blackburn – Chris is an engineer with a strong background in Electronics and Control Systems Engineering, having obtained a Master’s degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering with Computer Science at UCL. Chris has been involved in many interesting projects in the past, mostly focused around the UK Railway system. Chris has also been involved with The National Museum of Computing for some time. | Chris Blackburn |
Peter Vaughan |
Peter Vaughan – Peter is an engineer currently working in the Medical industry. He used to look after the IBM 1130 which can currently be seen in operation at The National Museum of Computing. Peter was a long standing volunteer at the National Museum of Computing, however he’s recently taken a step back to focus on other areas of his life. |
Simon Van Winklen – Simon is a retired Engineer who’s career started with real time control systems, 8bit to 32bit controllers, GSM base stations and Ethernet switching, before finally ending up in Project management of large software systems. Simon will be helping us with the restoration programme and hopes to put his control systems expertise to good use by helping us build interface emulation systems. | Simon Van Winklen |
Chris Wilkie |
Chris Wilkie – Chris is an Engineer who got his start in Broadcast Engineering. Since then he’s run ISP’s, online streaming services, data centres, and is currently working to deliver fibre-optic rural broadband services. Chris is the owner of Creslow Park where the machine was hosted before going to the USA. |
John Blackburn – John, as well as being Chris Blackburns father, is a highly skilled electronics engineer working across multiple industries. When we inevitably get stuck on an electronics problem, be it old or new technology, John is our go-to technical advisor. He has a vast wealth of knowledge that we’re very lucky to have access to. | John Blackburn |