Reboot for UK's 'oldest' computer
Wayne Brooker at Thursday 3rd September filed under Competitions
"Britain's oldest original computer, the Harwell, is
being sent to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley where it is
to be restored to working order.
The computer, which was designed in 1949, first ran in 1951 and was designed to perform mathematical calculations; it lasted until 1973.
When first built the 2.4m x 5m computer was state-of-the-art, although it was superseded by transistor-based systems."