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Following on from the success of the Home Computing exhibition, the Museum of Computing launched the High Score exhibition on 13th January 2004.This featured over 70 classic electronic games from the 1970s and 1980s.The exhibitions featured the very first TV video game, the Magnavox Odyssey 1 together with a range of Nintendo Game & Watches.

There were also numerous battery-operated arcade and educational games such as `Speak & Spell', a number of bat & ball `pong' type TV games, popular video consoles such as the Atari 2600 and Intellivision and a host of unusual electronic games.The exhibition was hosted alongside the existing Home Computers display at the museum.
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Pong to Playstation exhibition Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 03 October 2007 00:00

Following the success of our exhibition at the Vale and Downland museum, Wantage, Pong to Playstation is returning to Swindon. Charting the history of the computer games console, it's a hands-on exhibition for children of all ages.Come and play Nintendo like you used to! We have lots of activities for children including building your own games character from Lego!

 
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Calculator - from the abacus to the microchip Print E-mail
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Friday, 03 March 2006 00:00

Monday 27 February 2006 saw the launch of our latest exhibition 'Calculator - from the abacus to the microchip' officially opened by guest of honour Sir Clive Sinclair, one of the pioneers of the pocket calculator.

 
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