Antiques https://refractor.io/tag/antiques/ Antiques en-AU Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:44:21 GMT World's oldest digital computer restored to life at age 60 https://refractor.io/science/worlds-oldest-digital-computer-restored-to-life-at-age-60/ The Harwell computer as it appeared shortly after arrival at the National Museum of Computing (Photo: National Museum of Computing)

The Harwell Dekatron computer is a 1950s computer having roughly the weight and size of a Hummer H3 and the computing power of a four-function pocket calculator. Having been restored to its original operating condition using 95 percent original parts, it is now the oldest functioning programmable digital computer in the world. Guinness might have been onto something, when, in 1973, they named the Dekatron the Most Durable Computer in the World.

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