Ask The Experts | Relics of computing history - Booth and binary

The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park houses a unique collection of computers. Our expert team have maintained, restored and rebuilt some of the most important systems in Britain's business, war-time and personal computing history.

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In this video Roger answers a question about computing relics that are still in use today - the Booth's multiplication algorithm, and the binary number system.

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PHOTOS:
Andrew Booth - https://history.computer.org/pioneers/booth-ad.html
Still from the javascript online Booth Algorithm simulator: http://www.ecs.umass.edu/ece/koren/arith/simulator/Booth/