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Reboot for UK's Oldest Computer

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The next time you feel like complaining about your old busted POS of a PC, imagine what it would be like to work on this one. I’ll never complain about “old” hardware to Kyle again. Thanks to forum member xxGriff for the link.
 
lol... cool that they are bringing back an old computer =) it is truly amazing how far we've come in 60 years...
 
"The machine was a relay-based computer using 900 Dekatron gas-filled tubes that could each hold a single digit in memory - similar to RAM in a modern computer - and paper tape for both input and program storage."
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heh, 900 Dekatron gas-filled tubes! and you thought the prescott generated heat.
 
Anyone else notice that there is a heating radiator in the room with that monster ? ;)
 
xrealm20 said:
Anyone else notice that there is a heating radiator in the room with that monster ? ;)
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You can damn sure bet that they didn't have that turned on while the system was running :D

I wasn't around when they had systems like THAT, but back in the late 60's when I was programming/operating IBM 360's, you still needed a LOT of air conditioning capacity to deal with the heat that they generated. Keeping the computer ROOM warm was never an issue, unless you shut down over the weekend.
 
You mean this rig had nearly a gig of ram in 1950's? And my 386 in the 1980's had 2mb? WTF!! WHY?
 
FLECOM said:
uh... i think it has nearly 1kb, not 1gb LOL
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I'm not too sure. Intel invented the first 1k RAM (DRAM) chip in 1970, the i1103 and immediately afterwards, Fairchild Corp invented the SRAM at 256k.
 
So wait, they're going to restore it to working condition? What the hell for? What kind of math can it do beyond 1+1?

I say put the .50 cal to it!
 
So wait, they're going to restore it to working condition? What the hell for? What kind of math can it do beyond 1+1?
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Were British - we do cool things like this for no good reason

Not like you yanks with all your la de da bridges and whop de do freeways...
 
So wait, they're going to restore it to working condition? What the hell for? What kind of math can it do beyond 1+1?
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If you owned this computer, wouldn't you want to get it working and try it out?
 
I wonder if you'd save any energy running Snow Leopard on it.
 
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