Comments on: British museum aims to revive 1951 computer

By: Best Registry Cleane

Best Registry Cleane — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:55:00 +0000

The Harwell computer will become the oldest working electronic computer in the world.

By: Phil E. Drifter

Phil E. Drifter — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:34:00 +0000

lets hope it doesn't have enough onboard ram to install Windows 1.0.

By: Phil E. Drifter

Phil E. Drifter — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:34:00 +0000

lets hope it doesn’t have enough onboard ram to install Windows 1.0.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:23:00 +0000

10 days without a reboot? Sounds better than most computers nowadays :-p

@GadgetNut: I agree. I always contribute a little bit of money to things like that when I can. But they won't have trouble finding 25 people with $4,500, so that's probably easier for them than opening it to the public. I bet they've already found them.

@Chris: Why would rival companies work together? Yes, it's for the good of preserving technology, but business is still at stake. In this today's world, as much as I'd like to see them work together, they won't.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:23:00 +0000

10 days without a reboot? Sounds better than most computers nowadays :-p

@GadgetNut: I agree. I always contribute a little bit of money to things like that when I can. But they won’t have trouble finding 25 people with $4,500, so that’s probably easier for them than opening it to the public. I bet they’ve already found them.

@Chris: Why would rival companies work together? Yes, it’s for the good of preserving technology, but business is still at stake. In this today’s world, as much as I’d like to see them work together, they won’t.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:45:00 +0000

Just have 10 of the biggest tech companies in the US pony up $18,000 a piece. Google, HP, Dell, Cisco, Oracle, Sun, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Amazon? I mean, that $18,000 is like, 5 minutes' worth of annual profit for those guys, isn't it? And don't they all owe their existence to the likes of this thing?

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:45:00 +0000

Just have 10 of the biggest tech companies in the US pony up $18,000 a piece. Google, HP, Dell, Cisco, Oracle, Sun, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Amazon? I mean, that $18,000 is like, 5 minutes’ worth of annual profit for those guys, isn’t it? And don’t they all owe their existence to the likes of this thing?

By: GadgetNut

GadgetNut — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:01:00 +0000

When I was reading the beginning of the article, I was thinking I'd throw 'em a few bucks. Then, I got to the bottom and saw that they only want large contributors. OK, and as they used to say at Burger King, have it your way. Too bad that they don't have a PayPal box or something. I'm sure lots of folks with kindred interests, such as geeksaresexy folks, and others of our kind would have loved to forgo a couple of pints and contribute to their cause, just to say that we did. Oh, well. So be it. I wish 'em luck. Keep us posted on how the efforts go, won't ya?

By: GadgetNut

GadgetNut — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:01:00 +0000

When I was reading the beginning of the article, I was thinking I’d throw ‘em a few bucks. Then, I got to the bottom and saw that they only want large contributors. OK, and as they used to say at Burger King, have it your way. Too bad that they don’t have a PayPal box or something. I’m sure lots of folks with kindred interests, such as geeksaresexy folks, and others of our kind would have loved to forgo a couple of pints and contribute to their cause, just to say that we did. Oh, well. So be it. I wish ‘em luck. Keep us posted on how the efforts go, won’t ya?