5 Dec
2015
5 Dec
'15
12:17 a.m.
I guess you’re going to have to qualify that. It’s the oldest “surviving” (though it’s
unclear what that means to a computer not running) STORED PROGRAM machine.
The ENIAC, which by some standards is the first programmable digital computer still exists
at the Smithsonian. Some of my coworkers there were on the team that took it down from
BRL to the Smithsonian and actually tested it as operational when it was handed over to
the museum. I don’t think it’s ever been powered on since.