Video: Bletchley Park's nuclear missile detector

The DEC PDP 1134 seismometer array station processor...

Published: 15 September 2008 11:17 BST by Andy McCue

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This DEC PDP 1134 seismometer array station processor, used to detect earthquakes, is on display at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park.

In this exclusive video museum trustee Kevin Murrell explains how the machine was used to detect underground nuclear missile testing explosions after the nuclear test ban treaty, and how it helped the RAF to find an aeroplane that crash landed in the Scottish Highlands.


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Clifford Chance Thu 18 September, 2008 10:32am

Amazing how far things have moved on!

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