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I saw that system a couple of years ago and loved it. It has hundreds of flashing, spinning dekatron tubes, er, valves, and the control logic is relay based, so it makes lots of clicking noises. It's the apotheosis of the 50s sci-fi movie image of a computer. It is the oldest original working digital computer in the world. (Other systems, like the Colossus, are rebuilds.)


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