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Default 1950's WITCH computer running again
harry wrote:

On Nov 20, 9:46 am, Tim Watts wrote:
Now that is a real man's computer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20395212

at Bletchley Park - mostly original parts reassembled and now working.

Beautiful to watch - all clicking relays and dekatron tubes

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Tim Watts Personal Blog:http://www.dionic.net/tim/

"It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent
moral busybodies."

I thought they had an even older "Colossus" up and running?
I saw the "Bombe" running at Bletchley that predated even that.

The designs did but both were IIRC rebuilt from scratch.

WITCH is unique in that is was stored as an original kit of modules from the
original machine and apparantly most of the dekatrons still worked.


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Tim Watts Personal Blog: http://www.dionic.net/tim/

"It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent
moral busybodies."

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