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From: ins_atge@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Thomas G Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP2114B info
Summary: Old Computers
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Date: 12 Jun 90 16:36:46 GMT
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In article <2498@igloo.scum.com> drew@igloo.scum.com (Mike Drew) writes:
>It is a real computer! A computer with core and AND gates in the programmers
>model. I think that the machine is around 22 years old, and it still works!

This brings up several questions:

1) what is the oldest yet still functioning electronic computer?
   which computer has been in use the longest (is it the radar
   computer at the Computer Museum in Boston?
2) what is the oldest job?  (i.e. I have heard stories of
   a 20-year-old job which was running lowest priority
   on an MIT computer)
3) does anyone remember the Sphere?

-Tom

used to be a PET junkie