{"id":94472,"date":"2019-08-05T11:24:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T18:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/maybe-the-oldest-computer-probably-the-oddest"},"modified":"2019-08-05T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T18:24:16","slug":"maybe-the-oldest-computer-probably-the-oddest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/maybe-the-oldest-computer-probably-the-oddest","title":{"rendered":"Maybe The Oldest Computer, Probably The Oddest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/maybe-the-oldest-computer-probably-the-oddest.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Tadao Hamada] works for Fujitsu Tokki, a subsidiary of the more famous Fujitsu. In 1956, Fujitsu decided to compete with IBM and built a relay-based computer, the FACOM128. The computer takes up 70 square meters and weighs about 3 tons. By 1959, they\u2019d learned enough to make a FACOM128B model that was improved. [Hamada\u2019s] job is to keep one of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/ajw\/articles\/AJ201907280007.html\" target=\"_blank\">beasts operational<\/a> at Fujitsu\u2019s Numazu plant. According to the Japanese Computer Museum, it may be the <a href=\"http:\/\/museum.ipsj.or.jp\/en\/computer\/dawn\/0012.html\" target=\"_blank\">oldest working computer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Tadao Hamada] works for Fujitsu Tokki, a subsidiary of the more famous Fujitsu. In 1956, Fujitsu decided to compete with IBM and built a relay-based computer, the FACOM128. The computer takes up 70 square meters and weighs about 3 tons. By 1959, they\u2019d learned enough to make a FACOM128B model that was improved. [Hamada\u2019s] job [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}