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 ...

This is the Harwell Dekatron, also known as the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation or the WITCH computer. It was built in 1951, which makes it the oldest working digital computer in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kevin Murrell who discovered the computer explains how it was brought back to life The world's oldest original working digital computer is going on display at The National Museum of Computing in ...

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 ...

Of course, if you’re a computer historian, you already know that WITCH refers to the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation from Harwell. If not, here’s the story: The 2.5-ton machine, ...

As part of its 10th birthday celebrations, the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park in the UK set eight computing machines spanning 80 years against each other in a race to find numbers in a ...

The world's oldest original working digital computer is going on display at The National Museum of Computing in Buckinghamshire. The Witch, as the machine is known, has been restored to clattering and ...

Of course, if you’re a computer historian, you already know that WITCH refers to the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation from Harwell. If not, here’s the story: The 2.5-ton machine, ...