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All of the practical work organised by the society is through working groups. Below is a list of the current working parties, and a short summary of the sort of work they are undertaking.

Currently Active Groups

Group Name Summary   Based at Chair
Pegasus

The Pegasus computer on display at the Science Museum is the oldest extant working electronic computer in the world. Members of the CCS maintain and operate the Pegasus - and aim to demonstrate it running every fortnight at the museum.
Demonstrations were temporarily suspended in July 2009 following a electrical fault - and should resume by late spring 2010 - see our news page for more details.

   Science Museum Len Hewitt
 
     
Bombe Rebuild Project The rebuilt machine is now operational and can be seen at Bletchley Park. Please see the BP web site for more details. For more information about the rebuild project, click here.   Bletchley Park John Harper
 
     
ICT 1301 An original 1961 machine is being brought back to life – see the ICT 1301 Resurrection web site for more details.
Adopted by the CCS in 2009, and demonstrated to them in May – see CCS 1301 visit report		   Kent Rod Brown
 
     
Elliott 401 The CCS is restoring an Elliott 401 computer. This machine is not available to be seen by the general public at the moment.   Blythe House Chris Burton
 
     

Elliott 803

 This group is responsible for a pair of Elliott 803 computers. The Bletchley machine can be seen working most weekends.   TNMOC John Sinclair
 
     
DEC The DEC group are currently restoring a desktop 'straight' PDP8, the PDP11 Blacknest system, and the last remaining PDP11 based air traffic control system from LATCC, West Drayton.
See The National Museum of Computing for more details		   TNMOC Kevin Murrell
 
     
The Harwell Computer
aka The WITCH Computer

This is a new CCS working group set up to restore the original Harwell computer to working order and to be on display to the public at the National Museum of Computing.
For more information about this machine click here.

   TNMOC Tony Frazer
 
     
Software Conservation The mission is the preservation of historic software in machine readable form, ideally along with execution capability. The focus is on long-term preservation rather than special effects on a PC.      David Holdsworth
 
     
         
Previous restoration and preservation projects
         
Manchester Baby The project to build a replica of the Small-Scale Experimental Machine - the world's first computer. Click here for more details.      
Mil-DAP Distributed Array (Parallel) Processor      
         
         
         

 

 

 
 
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