A short film produced by Google to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Britain's first supercomputer, the Ferranti Atlas. When first switched on in December 1962, Atlas was the world's most powerf... World's Fastest Computer 50 years Ago
The first computer I ever saw was an ICL machine running Algol 60, with 512Kb ( yes Kb! ) memory in an air-conditioned room that felt like a fridge! Had to punch out the progs on paper tape. Just stopped short at having water pipes coiled round it for additional cooling.
Fuuck, you BEAT me to it Mike! Nevertheless, an interesting video, but no, I don't think it will run Crysis.
"....and now your washing machine has a more powerful computer in it than Atlas has." That's called capitalism, mate.