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If this sort of thing interests you and you're in the UK, the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry has a working replica of the first (stored-program, elec
by dTal 8y ago
If this sort of thing interests you and you're in the UK, the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry has a working replica of the first (stored-program, electronic) computer ever built, the Manchester Baby. Alan Turing actually wrote a program for it!
- ObsoleteNerd 8y agoThat's awesome. I'm hoping to go to the UK soon actually so I'm adding that to our list.
- takluyver 8y agoAnother good place to visit is the national museum of computing at Bletchley. They have a variety of cool old hardware, including the WITCH, a machine of similar vintage to CSIRAC with dekatron (physically base 10) memory, which has been restored to working order.
- welterde 8y agoIn case anyone finds themselves in Munich with time to spare one can visit the Deutsches Museum. They have a working replica of the Z3 the first (programmable, fully automatic) digital computer ever built as well as the original Z4 the first (commercial) digital computer as well as an UNIVAC 1 the first (commercial, produced in the US) digital computer (scnr). Both the Z3 and Z4 predating the Manchester Baby by a few years and already featuring quite modern features such as the use of binary floating point numbers.