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CSIRAC Dead

CSIRAC
KindMachine
Introduced1949
Discontinued1964
StatusDead
ManufacturerPearcey & Beard / CSIRO
ClassEarly computer
PlatformMercury delay lines
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Australia's first stored-program computer — and the oldest surviving first-generation machine in the world, intact at Museums Victoria in Melbourne.

Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard built CSIR Mk 1 in Sydney — first program run November 1949, making Australia the fourth nation with a working stored-program machine. Renamed CSIRAC when it moved to Melbourne in 1955, it ran weather forecasts and engineering calculations until 1964.

Uniquely among first-generation machines, it survives intact — the oldest surviving first-generation electronic stored-program computer, preserved at Museums Victoria since 1980.

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Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSIRAC