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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer

• tankenmate 12y ago
  An although it is only a replica the Colossus at Bletchley Park actually functions, unlike the ENIAC restoration. Also of note is that by the end of the war the GC&CS had 10 working Colossi.
  • rst 12y ago
    And the same museum at Bletchley Park (there are two) is building a functioning replica of the EDSAC, one of the first programmable, fully electronic computers: http://www.tnmoc.org/special-projects/edsac http://www.tnmoc.org/special-projects/edsac (Whether EDSAC was "the first" depends on how you define "computer", and what you think it means for a machine to be in operation, among other things, but it's one of several plausible claimants. The Z3, cited elsewhere here, was a programmable computer, but not fully electronic -- there was a lot of relay circuitry, which kept the clock rate down to about 10 Hz.) From the title, I was honestly expecting the article to be about this project instead.