13 Feb
2008
13 Feb
'08
5:20 p.m.
Philipp Hachtmann wrote:
I was thinking of the LGP30 when I asked the question. It is small.
Something the size of a house is not going to survive.
Sometimes is good enough for me... It was probably not much better when
it was new.
So what is the oldest computer still operational?
In Stuttgart (Germany) I have played lunar lander on a 1958 valve
computer (LGP30). The machine will have 50 years this year...
A link (in German, but there is a picture of the actual system though
it has been repainted later to mint green):
http://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/dev/lgp30/LGP-30.html
In the ZKM (www.zkm.de) in Karlsruhe/Germany they have a sometimes
operational Zuse Z22 from 1958.
Philipp :-)