Operator at the Atlas Supercomputer Control Panel, 1963 (image via BBC Four) The first Atlas, installed at Manchester…

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Operator at the Atlas Supercomputer Control Panel, 1963(image via BBC Four)

The first Atlas, installed at Manchester University [UK] and officially commissioned in 1962, was one of the world’s first supercomputers, considered to be the most powerful computer in the world at that time. It was said that whenever Atlas went offline half of the United Kingdom’s computer capacity was lost.- wikipedia

I want this control panel to control my IOT house