A 1949 computer will work again

In 1957 passed into oblivion, but now give new life to the WITCH. Engineers working on the task at soliciting donations to expand the museum where you are

The Colossus Mk II, the world's first computer, you now have a new partner and it is because the Witch, a machine running with 900 tubes Dekatron able to handle more than one digit each, will be restored by British engineers also want to extend the museum where the machines are.

The computer Harwell, better known as the Witch, was used in Britain in the first nuclear reactors and is considered a technological relic.

Volunteers from the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC by its initials in English) call for political appointees and industry to donate funds for the restoration project over the year. In addition it aims to expand the museum and parts. Have already advanced to a first sponsor, although no details were given.

Harvell The computer began working in 1949, was designed to be simple and reliable. Originally its activities were suspended in 1951 but then continued until 1957.

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