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#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

Meet the ancestor of modern calculation: the abacus! 🧮 It's a simple tool that uses place value (beads on rods) to perform all four basic arithmetic operations and even advanced calculations like finding square roots. It was the main calculator for centuries! #TechHistory #Maths #Swindon #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

In 1993, Apple introduced the Newton MessagePad - a precursor to the current iPhone. With its handwriting recognition, notes and contacts, it was ahead of its time - even if it seems a little basic compared to today's iPhone! #TechHistory #iphone #museum #Swindon

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

It's Saturday and we are open with education and entertainment for the whole family! Come and enjoy our great range of historic computers 🖥️, games consoles 🕹️, and more! Open 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

It's Saturday and we are open with education and entertainment for the whole family! Come and enjoy our great range of historic computers 🖥️, games consoles 🕹️, and more! Open 9:30am to 5pm Adult £7 Child £4 Family £17 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

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

We are open today! Level-up your Saturday with fun and education for the whole family! Whether you stay for an hour, or stay all day, we have lots to keep you entertained. Saturday 9:30am to 5pm #Swindon #computer #museum

It's the last Saturday before Christmas 🎄 and we are open! Come and reminisce about those Christmas days past with our range of computers and games consoles from the 80s and 90s! Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £5 Child £3 Family £12 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

Open today! Level-up your Saturday with fun and education for the whole family! Whether you stay for an hour, or stay all day, we have lots to keep you entertained. Saturday 9:30am to 5pm Adult £5 Child £3 Family £12 #Swindon #computer #museum

It's Saturday and we are open with education and entertainment for the whole family! Level-up your Saturday and enjoy our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £5 Child £3 Family £12 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

We are open today with education, entertainment and nostalgia for the whole family! Come and enjoy our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £5 Child £3 Family £12 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

We are open today with education, entertainment and nostalgia for the whole family! Come in from the rain 🌧️ and enjoy our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £5 Child £3 Family £12 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

We are open today with education, entertainment, and nostalgia for the whole family! come and enjoy our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £5 Child £3 Family £12 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

It's Saturday and we are open with education and entertainment for the whole family! come and enjoy our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £5 Child £3 Family £12 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

It's Saturday and we are open with education and entertainment for the whole family! Level-up your Saturday and enjoy our great range of classic computers 🖥️ and games consoles! 🕹️ Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £5 Child £3 Family £12 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

We are open today and have discovery, nostalgia, and entertainment for the whole family! Saturday - 9:30am to 5pm Adult £5 Child £3 Family £12 #Swindon #computer #retrogaming #museum

Ever wondered how an electro-mechanical noughts and crosses (Tic-tac-toe) machine from the 1940/50s works? Follow our volunteer, Ian, as he reverse engineers one of our artefacts, The Drof Computox, and blogs his journey. drof-computox.blogspot.com #retrochallenge #swindon #museum

Open today! Level-up your Saturday with fun and education for the whole family! Whether you stay for an hour, or stay all day, we have lots to keep you entertained. Saturday 9:30am to 5pm Adult £5 Child £3 Family £12 #Swindon #computer #museum

There's something spooky happening at the museum this All Hallows' Eve! Come join us for three hours of Halloween themed gaming on Friday 31st October from 6:30pm to 9:30pm! Tickets are now just £6 after Pac-Man sized bite was taken out of them! Tickets must be purchased from the link below.

We are open today! Level-up your Saturday with fun and education for the whole family! Saturday 9:30am to 5pm Adult £5 Child £3 Family £12 Don't forget your ticket to our Halloween event! www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticket... #Swindon #computer #museum

Do you want to support your local computer museum and have fun at Halloween? Come and join us for an evening of spooky gaming on Friday 31st of October! Purchase your ticket online at the link below www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticket... #Halloween #retrogaming #Swindon #Computer #Museum

Open today! Level-up your Saturday with fun and education for the whole family! Saturday 9:30am to 5pm Adult £5 Child £3 Family £12 Don't forget your early bird ticket to our Halloween event! www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticket... #Swindon #computer #museum

A new addition to our museum shop are these great floppy disk coasters. A colourful pack of 6 silicone coasters that will bring a retro touch of class to any gaming room. Pick them up from our museum shop for only £10 per pack! #Retro #gaming #mugoftea

We are open today! Come and enjoy our extensive collection of consoles and computers from the 1970s, 80s and more. Saturday 9:30am to 5pm Adult £5 Child £3 Family ticket £12 Don't forget your early bird ticket to our Halloween event! www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticket... #Swindon #computer #museum