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November 21, 2012 03:57 am GMT
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Worlds Oldest Computer Gets a Reboot [VIDEO]
The National Museum of Computing is welcoming a new, two-ton computer to its collection -- the world's oldest. Named "The Witch" for Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation from Harwell, the supercomputer was used to aid scientists in the 1950s who were crunching large numbers -- though it took a while. For every two digits, the computer took 10 seconds to calculate.
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After 15 years being out of commission, the computer has been restored. Three painstaking years thanks to a team of computer conversationists and 'The Witch" is back to the way it operated in its heyday.
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