Oldest computer still in current use

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sun May 11 20:37:01 2003

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Stan Sieler wrote:

> Re:
> > 1: What is the oldest computer or comptuer system still in normal
> > operational use
>
> Someone/group just ran a contest to find out the answer to that last year.
> I don't recall who/what won, nor if I was "happy" with the result :)

It was, I believe, Network Magazine, and the winner was an Altair 8800
that some
business man used to do his books.

Here's another contest I found whilst searching...it's from the U of Iowa:

http://www.uiowa.edu/~fyi/issues1999/06111999/computer.html

According to this:

http://www.cronaca.com/archives/000154.html

...Australia's CSIRAC is still in operation. But this would suggest
otherwise:

http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/csirac/

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