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Friday, November 23, 2012 16:17
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Of course that is easier said than done, there was only one WITCH ever built. It was 61 years ago that the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation from Harwell saw its debut. While today the manufactures aim for compactness, speed, and agility, the WITCH boasted none of the above! It was instead a 2 ½ ton energy hogging colossus that could store just 90 numbers.
OK, so it was not very portable, didn’t run Windows and had the reliability of a British Triumph Sports car with Lucas Electronics. But it was among the first generation of digital computers. It is from the likes of WITCH, ENIAC, and Alan Turing’s work on Bombe and Colossus that that the digital age dawned READMOREHERE
