13 Feb
2008
13 Feb
'08
4:39 p.m.
David Griffith wrote:
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Charles H Dickman wrote:
Well my grandmother is 92 and still does her own taxes, so by an one
definition of "computer" she beats your slide rule. :-) I am sure there
is a museum with an ancient abacus or a board with some holes and
stones, too.
I was thinking about electronic, digital, stored program,
Turing-complete computers. The PDP-1 at the CHM is the oldest I know of.
I have no reason to believe it is the oldest though.
Roger Holmes wrote:
I have a 60+ year-old slide rule.
Are you kidding? My machine is 46 years old and
that is a SECOND
generation computer.
So what is the oldest computer still operational?