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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Researchers at the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) in the UK have restored a massive, 1950s-era computer known as “The Witch,” making it the world’s oldest working digital computer. As BBC News ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...