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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 th
by 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 agoAnd 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.