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Open every Saturday, our museum is a great place for the whole family to experience computing and gaming as it used to be with our classic computers 🖥️ and video games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

It's Saturday and we are open! Enjoy entertainment and education for the whole family! Lots to see and experience with our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #museum

In 1982, Atari adopted the 2600 name to differentiate the original VCS from the newer 5200. Then the 70s-style case was replaced. First by an all-black look, unofficially termed the "Vader", then in 1986, by the sleek, futuristic wedge design of the "2600 Jnr". #Museum #Atari #VCS #Swindon #retr

Open every Saturday, our museum is a great place for the whole family to experience computing and gaming as it used to be with our classic computers 🖥️ and video games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

As the Atari landed in millions of homes, cartridges gained extra memory with clever bank-switching techniques. Games could be bigger! ✨Programmers learned to change colours and shapes mid-line, so one “character” could become many🪄 #Museum #Atari #VCS #Swindon #1970s #2600

Open every Saturday, our museum is a great place for the whole family to experience computing and gaming as it used to be with our classic computers 🖥️ and video games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

The Atari VCS didn’t remember a full picture the way later consoles did. 📺 It had almost no memory — barely enough to jot down a short note 📝 — and a custom chip that had to draw the screen live as the TV’s electron beam swept across it, line by line.⚡ #Museum #Atari #Swindon

It's Saturday and we are open! Enjoy entertainment and education for the whole family! Lots to see and experience with our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #museum

It's Saturday and we are open! Enjoy entertainment and education for the whole family! Lots to see and experience with our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #museum

It's Saturday and we are open! Enjoy entertainment and education for the whole family! Lots to see and experience with our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #museum

🕹️ SNES: landed in Britain in 1992 with Mario and then a pricey-but-faithful Street Fighter II. The US got a sharper purple-grey shell — designer Lance Barr said the original looked like a “bag of bread” 🍞. Europe kept the Japanese curves. US angles or Euro smoothness? #SNES #RetroGaming #Swindon

It's Saturday and we are open! Enjoy entertainment and education for the whole family! Lots to see and experience with our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #museum

Open every Saturday, our museum is a great place for the whole family to experience computing and gaming as it used to be with our classic computers 🖥️ and video games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

Open every Saturday, our museum is a great place for the whole family to experience computing and gaming as it used to be with our classic computers 🖥️ and video games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

Remember the Atari Lynx? In 1989 it felt almost like sci-fi 🚀 While everyone else fought over the family TV 📺, the Lynx let you take full-colour, 16-bit backlit gaming anywhere! #AtariLynx #RetroGaming #HandheldGaming #GamingHistory #Swindon #Museum

Open every Saturday, our air-conditioned museum is a great place for the whole family to experience computing and gaming as it used to be with our classic computers 🖥️ and video games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

Chill out in the world of retro computing 🖥️ and gaming 🕹️ with our extensive collection of computers and games consoles, all ready for you to try in our air-conditioned gallery! Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #museum

Open every Saturday, our air-conditioned museum is a great place for the whole family to experience computing and gaming as it used to be with our classic computers 🖥️ and video games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

Chill out in the world of retro computing 🖥️ and gaming 🕹️ with our extensive collection of computers and games consoles, all ready for you to try in our air-conditioned gallery! Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #museum

Open every Saturday, our air-conditioned museum is a great place for the whole family to experience computing and gaming as it used to be with our classic computers 🖥️ and video games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

Chill out in the world of retro computing 🖥️ and gaming 🕹️ with our extensive collection of computers and games consoles, all ready for you to try in our air-conditioned gallery! Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #museum

Open every Saturday, our air-conditioned museum is a great place for the whole family to experience computing and gaming as it used to be with our classic computers 🖥️ and video games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

Chill out in the world of retro computing 🖥️ and gaming 🕹️ with our extensive collection of computers and games consoles, all ready for you to try in our air-conditioned gallery! Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #museum

It's Saturday and we are open! Enjoy entertainment and education for the whole family! Lots to see and experience with our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #museum

Open every Saturday, our museum is a great place for the whole family to experience computing and gaming as it used to be with our classic computers 🖥️ and video games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

The Museum of Computing was founded in 2003 and has been 100% run by volunteers for over 23 years! Volunteers make possible so many things which enrich communities the world over. #Volunteersweek #RetroFest2026 #RetroFest

It's Saturday and we are open! Enjoy entertainment and education for the whole family! Lots to see and experience with our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #museum

Chill out in the world of retro computing 🖥️ and gaming 🕹️ with our extensive collection of computers and games consoles, all ready for you to try in our air-conditioned gallery! Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #museum

Chill out in the world of retro computing 🖥️ and gaming 🕹️ with our extensive collection of computers and games consoles, all ready for you to try in our air-conditioned gallery! Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #museum

It's Saturday and we are open! Enjoy entertainment and education for the whole family! Lots to see and experience with our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #museum

Open every Saturday, our museum is a great place for the whole family to experience computing and gaming as it used to be with our classic computers 🖥️ and video games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

It's Saturday and we are open! Enjoy entertainment and education for the whole family! Lots to see and experience with our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #museum

Open every Saturday, our museum is a great place for the whole family to experience computing and gaming as it used to be with our classic computers 🖥️ and video games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

It’s 1983, you’re 8, and the teacher wheels in the BBC Model B trolley. Nothing better! Granny’s Garden: Simple by today’s standards, yet it captivated UK school children as their first taste of microcomputers 🧙‍♀️😃. Play it on a real BBC Micro at the Museum of Computing #retrogaming #grannysgarden

It's Saturday and we are open! Enjoy entertainment and education for the whole family! Lots to see and experience with our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

Open every Saturday, our museum is a great place for the whole family to experience computing and gaming as it used to be with our classic computers 🖥️ and video games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

It's Saturday and we are open! Enjoy entertainment and education for the whole family! Lots to see and experience with our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

In the UK, 1980s home computers typically loaded software from audio cassettes, but did you know software sometimes came on records? These ‘flexi discs’ were given away on magazine covers. They were cheap to manufacture and more convenient to distribute than bulky cassettes. #record #computer

Open every Saturday, our museum is a great place for the whole family to experience computing and gaming as it used to be with our classic computers 🖥️ and video games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

ZX81 BASIC provided a ‘PRINT AT’ command for displaying characters at given coordinates. The ‘PLOT’ command would place a pixel (at a chunky 64x44 resolution). The PRINT’N’PLOTTER JOTTER was a special notepad that allowed screen layouts to be planned out on paper. Did you use one back in the day?

It's Saturday and we are open! Enjoy entertainment and education for the whole family! Lots to see and experience with our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

These table-top and handheld games brought the arcade experience home (or into your pocket). Do you spot an old favourite?

Open every Saturday, our museum is a great place for the whole family to experience computing and gaming as it used to be with our classic computers 🖥️ and video games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

It's Saturday and we are open! Enjoy entertainment and education for the whole family! Lots to see and experience with our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

Level-up your Saturday with entertainment and education for the whole family! Lots to see and experience with our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

We are open today with education and entertainment for the whole family! Level-up your Saturday and enjoy our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

Come and join in the fun at the Festival of Tomorrow in Swindon today and Saturday. Enjoy our interactive displays of historic AI and dialup internet! #Swindon #Computer #Museum #FestivalOfTomorrow www.festivaloftomorrow.com/

It was great to welcome Peter Leigh (AKA Nostalgia Nerd) as a visitor today and chat about our museum. If you're not already a follower of Nostalgia Nerd check out his YouTube channel at the link below. youtube.com/@nostalgianerd @nostalgianerd.com #Swindon #Computer #Retrogaming #Museum

Level-up your Saturday with entertainment and education for the whole family! Lots to see and experience with our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

We are open today with education and entertainment for the whole family! Level-up your Saturday and enjoy our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and retro games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum