Tech’s first female entrepreneur - from making her millions to Alan Turing

The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is home to the world's largest collection of working historic computers.Follow the development of computing: from the Turing-Welchman Bombe and Colossus of the 1940s through the large systems and mainframes of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, to the rise of personal computing and the rise of mobile computing and the internet.Recognised as one of England’s top 100 ‘irreplaceable places’, we welcome corporate and group visits, schools and individuals from all over the world.We are normally open Tuesday to Friday 10:30 -17:00, Saturday & Sunday 10:30 – 17:00. Please check tickets for actual opening days and times.TNMOC operates independently of Bletchley Park Trust, although we are located on the Bletchley Park Estate.To visit us, go through the main Bletchley Park entrance, through the barrier, walk or drive bearing left beyond the main car parks, to our separate entrance located at the top of the Park.Visit their website here for more information.https://www.tnmoc.org/Sat Nav users: please use the postcode for the railway station MK3 6DS on Sherwood Drive and then follow signs. The postcode for Bletchley Park will actually take you to an old entrance which is closed.

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A Virtual Talk by Mary MonroThe British Tabulating Machine Company is a British legend - famously furnishing Bletchley Park with more than 200 Bombes to crack complex German military message codes during WW2. Irish information-services pioneer Dora Metcalf was one of those behind that legend: she created BTM’s successful Service Bureaux Division and is believed to have managed the contract for Bletchley, known as Bureau B, ensuring Bombes were made and staffed.But little is known about Dora - until now.Join biographer and great niece Mary Monro on June 17 at 6.30pm to discover how tech’s first female entrepreneur found herself on the business-end of British government IT - and the Turing-Welchman Bombe.Mary will take you from Ireland to Bletchley Park, from the first commercialisation of information technology to the industrialisation of wartime decryption.She will discuss:<ul><li>Dora’s journey from mechanical calculator salesperson to setting up Ireland’s first computer services firm</li><li>How successful delivery of large and prestigious IT services contracts turned Dora into a millionaire</li><li>Dora’s role running computing services for major sections of the pre-War British government</li><li>The evidence that suggests Dora ran the Bletchley’s Bombe contract and the challenges she faced, such as battles with officials for critical raw materials.</li><li>The toll work took on her health - and the corporate politics that ensured Dora didn’t receive the recognition she deserved.</li></ul>Mary will draw on her research based on sources that include Dora’s diaries and records from The National Archives.

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