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Default 1950's WITCH computer running again

On Nov 20, 6:36*pm, Gordon Henderson wrote:
In article ,
Bob Eager wrote:









On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:23:24 +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote:


In article ,
Bob Eager wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:46:17 +0000, 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


Have to take a look at that. Nearer to home for you....


*http://www.ict1301.co.uk/


I see the website design is nearly as old as the computer ;-)


Gordon


I know...very patchy! THe talk he gave to us was rather like that, but
worth it anyway!


I'm off to Bletchly/TNMOC in a couple of weeks time too - looking forward
to seeing it!

Gordon


You can often speak to people that operated them during the war.