A team of volunteers has completed a three-year restoration of the world's oldest working digital computer, the Harwell Dekatron, also known as 'WITCH'. The 2.5-tonne machine, which first entered ...

Painting of Witch computer had been missing for years and was the subject of a nationwide search A long-lost portrait of a historic computer – built in 1951 and now the oldest working digital computer ...

It is around eight feet high, 16 feet long and about one foot wide – but back in its 1950s heyday it was state-of-the-art. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's ...

After the world's oldest working digital computer was rebooted at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park last week, it showed its paces in a race against a man with a hand-cranked Facit ...