World’s oldest original working digital computer gets a reboot

Computing has come a long way. Take a look at this clip of the Harwell Dekatron, otherwise known as the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation (WITCH). The supercomputer from 1951 was restored over a period of three years by experts at England’s National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park. This week, they rebooted the beast in front of reporters.