At Cubik Innovation we are fortunate to have some exceptionally talented team members with brilliant personalities.

We often pop to the pub for a pint but last week it was agreed we should have our first Cubik day trip. So, where do 12 electronic engineers and designers go? Bletchley Park of course!

Having squashed into a minibus for a couple of hours we arrived at Bletchley Park on a lovely sunny day and headed straight for the enigma machines and the Alan Turing exhibition.

A truly fascinating exhibition it certainly stoked our inner spies and the team were eager to head off to the much-anticipated Colossus Computer.

Developed by code breakers during the Second World War, the Colossus Computer is the world’s first programmable computer designed to decrypt messages sent by enemy machines. Ten machines were built in total and were later dismantled with many parts destroyed after the war. Having the opportunity to see the machine working was something quite special.

Next, we were taken on a special tour of The National Museum of Computing. The museum staff talked us through the various computing technologies, beginning with the Harwell Dekatron (WITCH), through Mainframes to Sinclairs and Amstrads right up to present day computers, with a fascinating and entertaining take on emerging and colliding technologies.