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The Imitation Archive: sounds of computers past

Over two months at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, sound artist Matt Parker recorded and archived over 100 sounds from the historic collection of computers within the museum. The Imitation Archive is the result. It is based at The British Library Sound and Vision Archive, to act as a permanent repository of the sounds of 70 years of computing history, starting as far back as the first ever programmable digital computer, Colossus.

(Image from The Imitation Archive by Matt Parker 2015)

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3 minutes