The National Museum of Computing welcomes a new…or should we say old, computer!
The world’s oldest computer was recently added to The National Museum of Computing’s collection! This two-ton computer is named The WITCH. It stands for Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation from Harwell. Back in the 1950s, when this computer was made, scientists would use this ‘supercomputer’ for crunching large numbers. The only problem was that it took a while. For every two digits put into the computer, it would ten seconds to calculate.
This computer had been out of commission for about 15 years. After three years of work put in by a team of computer conversationalists, The WITCH was restored and went back to the way it operated in its glory days!