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Sponsor a Valve On Colossus

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 9, 2012 @05:01AM from the don't-worry-they-have-tubes-too dept.

mikejuk writes "The UK's National Museum of Computing has come up with a novel idea to raise funds for its new gallery for its rebuilt Colossus computer — you can sponsor a valve. All you have to do is buy a small area in a picture of Colossus (at £0.1 per pixel — min £10), upload a picture to occupy the space, set a URL and pay using PayPal."

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Novel? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-09 05:03 · Score: 5, Informative

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
Has anybody contacted Dr. Forbin about this? by mmell · 2012-02-09 05:11 · Score: 5, Funny

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project
Knowing the internet... by JustAnotherIdiot · 2012-02-09 05:19 · Score: 5, Funny

Half of it is just going to be dicks.

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This is the voice of World Control by reluctantjoiner · 2012-02-09 05:29 · Score: 3, Insightful

I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied dead....Except for mmell who paid for this shiny new valve, and in return has been allocated an additional martini per week.

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