A team of volunteers has completed a three-year restoration of the world's oldest working digital computer, the Harwell Dekatron, also known as 'WITCH'. The 2.5-tonne machine, which first entered ...

Painting of Witch computer had been missing for years and was the subject of a nationwide search A long-lost portrait of a historic computer – built in 1951 and now the oldest working digital computer ...

This is the Harwell Dekatron, also known as the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation or the WITCH computer. It was built in 1951, which makes it the oldest working digital computer in the ...

After the world's oldest working digital computer was rebooted at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park last week, it showed its paces in a race against a man with a hand-cranked Facit ...

It is around eight feet high, 16 feet long and about one foot wide – but back in its 1950s heyday it was state-of-the-art. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's ...

As part of its 10th birthday celebrations, the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park in the UK set eight computing machines spanning 80 years against each other in a race to find numbers in a ...