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Re:This G15 is the Oldest Running Digital Computer in Americ... by renw0rp on Friday November 29, 2024 @10:03AM (#42274337)
On the topic, the oldest original running computer[1] can be found in the UK in the National Museum of Computing based in Bletchley Park (where Alan Turing and many others worked breaking German cryptography). The museum requires a separate ticket from the "main" Bletchley Park museum. It's around 1h trip from London Euston. Well worth a visit! Among other items, they have a working "Bombe" replica

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harwell_computer

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Re:This G15 is the Oldest Running Digital Computer in Americ... by cjs_ac on Friday November 29, 2024 @11:47AM (#42275079)
When I visited a couple of years ago, it was quietly clicking away, computing prime numbers.
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Re:This G15 is the Oldest Running Digital Computer in Americ... by tengwar2 on Friday November 29, 2024 @04:37PM (#42277323)
Not sure if it's still the case, but when I visited, they handed you a button to single-step through the program. You actually get to operate it, at some level.
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