A team of volunteers has completed a three-year restoration of the world's oldest working digital computer, the Harwell Dekatron, also known as 'WITCH'. The 2.5-tonne machine, which first entered ...
It is around eight feet high, 16 feet long and about one foot wide – but back in its 1950s heyday it was state-of-the-art. And now the historic Harwell computer, later known as the Witch computer used ...
After the world's oldest working digital computer was rebooted at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park last week, it showed its paces in a race against a man with a hand-cranked Facit ...
The 61-year-old Harwell Dekatron (aka WITCH) computer, was made from parts more commonly found in a telephone exchange The mammoth machine, which fills a room, is as heavy as 20,000 iPhones but ...