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@The Harwell Dekatron WITCH computer at the National Museum of Computing

This is a 1950s-era computer at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, running a small program. It's relay-based and works entirely in base 10; the visible tubes are Dekatron storage devices, each of which stores a single decimal digit. It's a true stored-program computer capable of running code out of RAM, at about one instruction per second --- multiplication two numbers takes several seconds. It has an address space of 100 8-digit words of memory, which limited the size of in-memory programs, so it mostly executed programs directly from paper tape. http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/witch.htm

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