Guinness Record Digital Computer Oldest

                            

LONDON, KOMPAS.com - A calculator is turned back into Guinness Book of Records as the first digital computers were still operating. The computer

, The Harwell Dekatron-who are in the National Museum of Computing in Buckinghamshire, England-was first used in 1951.

however, The Harwell Dekatron was stripped and stored in a warehouse before it was rebuilt so that it can operate normally.

Made for an energy research center in Oxfordshire, kalkualtor it replaces work previously done by calculating machine.

In November 2012, the computer was turned on again after a three-year restoration.

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two meters high and six meters wide, computer nicknamed ' Witch 'was designed and started doing in 1949.

Weighing between 2.5 tons and takes 10 seconds to do the calculation, but the two figures unreliable because often used up to 80 hours a week.

"In those days computers are not expected to work more than five or 10 minutes without stopping," said Kevin Murrell, a member of the foundation board of the National Museum of Computing.

In 1973, the computers on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Birmingham for 24 years until the museum closes and 'Witch' is stored in the warehouse.

Murrell found the control panel is not accidentally in 2006 and slowly discovered many other parts that can be rebuilt.