A computer as big as three big wardrobes, with many vacuum tubes.

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   blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 04:20:20 JST blinry

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   Visited the National Museum of Computing today. I've been to plenty of computer museums – but this one is special: Almost everything works!

   You can type on an Enigma, and then see how a bombe helped decipher it. It's *loud*!!

   They also have a computer from 1951, the "Witch", which still works! It had 340 bytes of RAM, could calculate five values per second, and punch them out on paper tape!