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Saru
How's this for a cutting edge computer ? laugh.gif

Leading Edge computer called the CSIRAC, which is claimed to be the first computer in the world to play music, is on its last legs in an Australian museum -- like Mageek it's pegging out. The machine was built in 1949, weighs a few tons, and consumed enough electricity to light up a street.

The machine was the fourth computer to be built anywhere in the world, ran at 0.001MHz, and had a massive 2000 bytes of memory and a behemothic 2500 bytes of storage.

And it's still running, now safe in the Melbourne Museum, in Australia.


Kismit
biggrin.gif Finnally a computer that is more out dated than mine.
Dowdy
SaRuMaN
where did you get that article from.

my aunty is coming over here in about a week and i could probably show her that.
HD
I bet it's operating system is still more stable than windows.....
Saru
Sorry, forgot to include the link to the source of that article:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6644
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