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50 Year Old Computer Still Going

Posted by chrisd on from the not-a-laptop dept.

The Angry Mick writes "Geek.com is running a blurb on a 50 year old CSIRAC computer that is apparently still functional, if lurking in an Australian museum. Sporting a whopping 2K of RAM and screaming along at a blistering 300 khz(!) it proves the adage that they really don't make 'em like they used to . . ." Yes, because if they did, they'd be really, really slow.

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  1. Re:slashdot by _damnit_ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, I was unable to log in or view the poll results for a while. Maybe it's some strange static page they put up during patching or updating. Anyone know for sure?

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  2. Re:slashdot by Kajakske · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It is fixed now, but this is not the place to post this. They have bugtracking for that (click bugs on the left)

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  3. obligatory: by 0x12d3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    2 huge, throbbing k's of pr0n goodness :)~

  4. Re:These Beowulf "jokes" just arn't funny anymore by Morky · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, but imagine a Beowulf cluster of Beowulf cluster jokes.

  5. Re:This is news?!?!? by Digital11 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Unless we're specifically talking about the moon-landing thing which in Soviet Russia would probably get the editor shot :P

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