Oldest ''Working'' Computer Gets New Life

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seriously... This guy only had stamina enough to use a calculator for 30 mins?

"In a race with a human mathematician using a mechanical calculator, the human kept pace for 30 minutes, but then had to retire exhausted as the machine carried on remorselessly."

Recycle that old POS, build 10000 new PC cases from it.
 
[citation][nom]nonstoprobot[/nom]But can it run Crysis?[/citation]
lol... um no.
It can hardly calculate the tax for the purchase of the game.
 
[citation][nom]nonstoprobot[/nom]But can it run Crysis?[/citation]
Hell, it can't even SPELL Crysis. Still, it's kinda cool to keep stuff like this running for posterity. As fast as the computer is evolving, it would be like going to a museum and seeing an exhibit with actual, living neaderthals.
 
I'm impressed it could run for 10 days. I doubt the average user's Windows install can last that long without a reboot.
 
[citation][nom]grieve[/nom]seriously... This guy only had stamina enough to use a calculator for 30 mins?"In a race with a human mathematician using a mechanical calculator, the human kept pace for 30 minutes, but then had to retire exhausted as the machine carried on remorselessly."Recycle that old POS, build 10000 new PC cases from it.[/citation]
He's using a mechanical calculator (they didn't have those fancy pocket calculators at the time), working furiously to keep up. And I think that even if he could keep going another half hour, there was little reason to do so, the conclusions would be the same.
 
[citation][nom]kikireeki[/nom]It is very nice as an antique, but putting all that money to revive it is a complete waste![/citation]
Agreed. Also I don't even want to know how much power that thing must consume.
 
[citation][nom]johnny_5[/nom]Agreed. Also I don't even want to know how much power that thing must consume.[/citation]
If I owned it... it would be a Case mod for my more modern super computer/main-frame. I would show people the beast and then wow them when they see it run Crysis :)
 
[citation][nom]nonstoprobot[/nom]But can it run Crysis?[/citation]

Even if it did have the processing power, playing on ticker tape would prove rather difficult. I mean, my graphing calculator would be 100 times more suited for Crysis! At least it has some form of screen...
 
Someday Crysis-ready computers will be a waste and we will see some of our modded computers in a museum. There's gonna be other people in that year and they will ask ( Can it play some badass-uber demanding graphics game?). Hell our computers are going to be total joke.
 
They should move that computer from museums to museums so the people and children could see what computers are like years before they are born.
 
[citation][nom]jellico[/nom]Hell, it can't even SPELL Crysis. Still, it's kinda cool to keep stuff like this running for posterity. As fast as the computer is evolving, it would be like going to a museum and seeing an exhibit with actual, living neaderthals.[/citation]

Guys, the "Can it run Crysis" thing is a joke. Chill down a bit, no need to take it so seriously and literally.
 
I wonder where the ENIAC (first fully Turing-complete) vacuum-tube computer is nowadays... It took up the space of a small gym and used 150KW of power, and a speed of something like 5000 instructions per second. In contrast, the Intel 8088 used just a few watts and could execute over 330K IPS.

But IIRC the ENIAC was by far the biggest leap forward of all time - something like a thousand times the performance of its immediate predecessor which used electro-mechanical relays instead of vacuum tubes.
 
I get putting it in a museum. But why restore it to working function. It has no function anymore, even if lights flash and wheels twirl, it still has no function if its 'working' or not.
 
[citation][nom]lkdfklj28j82jksj[/nom]I get putting it in a museum. But why restore it to working function. It has no function anymore, even if lights flash and wheels twirl, it still has no function if its 'working' or not.[/citation]

It has plenty of function, granted it's not usable in scociety today as mroe than a nostalgia , epice , but it can alwasy go fort eh world's largest calculator 😛 , but seriously i don't see why so many folks take beef over a museam spendign so doh to refurbish old things , . It's liek tehy bassically think history is "not worth it" i guess we jsut need to throw history out of school all together and perhaps we can have a few more world wars while we are at it
 
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