TechManiak Blog » Oldest Working Computer http://www.techmaniak.com Techy Gizmos and Such Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:17:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 World’s oldest working computer to be rebuilt http://www.techmaniak.com/2009/09/04/worlds-oldest-working-computer-to-be-rebuilt/ http://www.techmaniak.com/2009/09/04/worlds-oldest-working-computer-to-be-rebuilt/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:17:12 +0000 TechManiak http://www.techmaniak.com/?p=27
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    The giant rack of vacuum tubes is being taken out of storage at Wolverhampton University where it has been gathering dust since 1973. The amazing thing is that, until then, the Harwell – or the WITCH (Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell) as it was known at the time – was still being used to teach computing science to students. Its new home will be at the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park, wartime home of the Enigma Machine codebreakers.


    Picture by courtesy of the Wolverhampton Express and Star

    The machine was designed in 1949 and was intended to take some of the slog out of scientific calculations. If they can get the funding, they plan to rebuild this ancient machine and bring it back to life.

    Source: [BBC, The Inquirer, Gizmodo]

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