13 Feb
2008
13 Feb
'08
4:37 p.m.
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Charles H Dickman wrote:
The earliest created. It's birthday is the moment it first calculated
something, or the day it went on sale.
So what is the oldest computer still operational?
Meaningless question, until you DEFINE:
"Oldest" "computer"
A machine that can (theoretically) automatically solve any arbitrary
problem, with input, storage, and output. I think the term is pretty well
defined. Not a tabulator, or calculator, or punch-card time tracking
machine, or programmable loom.
"operational"
Still performs to original specs. Lights light up, results are accurate,
etc...