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November 21, 2012 04:35 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/b4C6p3Ty-3g/1951-digital-computer-restored.html
1951 digital computer restored and rebooted
This is the Harwell Dekatron, aka Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation (WITCH), a 61-year-old machine that was rebooted yesterday to become "the world's oldest original working digital computer." Originally operated at the Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, it was moved in 1957 to Wolverhampton's Staffordshire Technical College where it was dubbed the WITCH. There it [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/b4C6p3Ty-3g/1951-digital-computer-restored.html
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