Thursday 17 October 2013
Last operating ICT 1301 mainframe computer set to run again
What weighs 5 tons and has less computing power than your watch? A pioneering piece of computing history call "Flossie," the last operating ICT 1301 mainframe. The National Museum of Computing recently took delivery of the dismantled computer, which needed three moving vans to bring it to the museum’s storage facility in Milton Keynes, UK. .. Continue Reading Last operating ICT 1301 mainframe computer set to run again
Section: Computers
Tags: Computer, History, National Museum of Computing, University of London
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