Bletchley's 50 Year Old Computer To Work Again

The Harwell, the UK’s oldest original computer, is now being sent to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley, where engineers will work to restore it to working order. The vintage machine was originally designed back in 1949 to compute mathematical calculations, and was first used in 1951, remaining operational from then to 1973. The state-of-the-art computer (ed: back then) is a big rack of components and measures around 2.4m x 5m. It was designed by a...