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| | CSIRAC - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography |
 | | CSIRAC (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer), originally known as CSIR Mk I, was Australia's first digital computer, and the fifth stored program computer in the world and presently the oldest intact (albeit inoperable) digital computer in the world. | | | CSIRAC homepage (http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/csirac/) – From the Computation Laboratory at the University of Melbourne's Dept of Computer Science and Software Engineering | | | In 1951, CSIRAC was used to play music, the first recorded use of a digital computer for the purpose. |
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http://www.arikah.com/encyclopedia/CSIRAC
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| | Hill: UNESCO Culture Sector |
| | CSIRAC was Australia's first computer and it was the fifth all-electronic digital computer in the world. | | | Australia's first software engineer (Geoff Hill), who worked with CSIRAC from 1948, came from a musical background and he programmed the computer to play music. |
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| | Multimedia celebrates its fiftieth birthday... with CSIRAC |
| | Nonetheless, CSIRAC was, and is an impressive achievement in the history of computers: the first to play sound, and the oldest operational computer in the world. | | | On a somewhat related note, CSIRAC was technically the fifth operational computer in the world after a US district court ruled that the Atanasoff Berry Computer was the first digital computer ever created between the years 1937 and 1942. | | | CSIRAC, named after the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (later renamed to CSIRO) which built the machine in 1949, is believed to be the first computer to ever play music. |
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http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1039722515.html
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| | CSIRAC has returned |
| | CSIRAC was by then the only first generation computer still operating. | | | This is the computer CSIRAC which 40 years ago launched the University and this city into the computer age. | | | CSIRAC has returned....the first computer in Melbourne and in Australia |
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http://www.unimelb.edu.au/ExtRels/Gazette/Spring96/CSIRAC.html
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| | The Machine that Changed our World |
| | It ran at 0.001 megahertz, with 2000 bytes of memory and a mere 2500 bytes of storage. | | | After the computer project in Sydney was terminated, CSIRAC was transferred to Melbourne University where it was used by university and CSIRO staff for another nine years. | | | But once the instructions could be stored in the machine's electronic memory, along with the data, the computer could run at its own speed and could respond to more complex instructions. |
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http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10082/20010703/www.abc.net.au/science/slab/csirac/default.htm
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| | BBC News SCI/TECH Birthday for computing dinosaur |
| | Like so many of the machines from the early days of computing, CSIRAC is a monster. | | | CSIRAC stands for Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer. | | | It is exactly 50 years ago that CSIRAC, the nation's very first computer, sprang into life and ran a program. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_534000/534645.stm
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| | The machine, CSIRAC - the first computer to be used at the University of Melbourne - is the most complete example of an early first generation computer in the world. | | | When CSIRAC was in use, it weighed seven tonnes and used electricity at the same rate as a small town - all for 2Kb of storage and an operation speed of about 1/100,000 of a modern personal computer. | | | The machine is of such importance to computing history that the Australian Computer Society, the Australian Computer Museum Society and the University joined forces last week to celebrate the 40-year milestone with a conference, including a free public lecture, at the University. |
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http://www.unimelb.edu.au/ExtRels/Media/UN/archive/1996/122/computingmonstermeetsmouse.html
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| | ASAP Publications - Guide to the Records of CSIRAC |
| | CSIRAC designed and built by CSIR scientists, was the first stored-memory electronic computer in Australia. | | | CSIRAC Graphical Simulator, by Computing Students at The University of Sydney | | | National Archive for the History of Computing at the University of Manchester |
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| | CSIRAC: Australia's first computer in 1949 |
| | It was in Melbourne that CSIRAC came into its own as a general computing workhorse - from June 1956 to June 1964 over 700 computing projects were processed. | | | On 14 June 1956 the Mk1 was recommissioned and renamed CSIRAC and the new Computation Laboratory at the University of Melbourne was officially opened. | | | The Last of the First, CSIRAC: Australia's First Computer |
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| | The Last of the First - Samuel R. A. Taylor |
| | Three years before CSIRAC was operational, he foresaw the day when we would enjoy nationwide access to computing facilities, electronic databases and reference material. | | | In the late 40s and early 50s a small team in the Radiophysics division of what is now CSIRO, designed and built one of the very first electronic computers in the world: the CSIR Mk1, commonly known as CSIRAC. | | | However, it doesn’t allow for much contextual information and the authors make no attempt to compare CSIRAC with other early machines. |
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| | The Music of CSIRAC |
| | John Spencer was a programmer on CSIRAC who remains highly skilled with CSIRAC programs and he has also written a comprehensive emulator for CSIRAC. | | | The idea of using a computer, the world's most flexible machine, to create music was a leap of imagination at the time. | | | It is a pity that composers were not invited to use CSIRAC, as they were with the Bell Labs developments, to discover how it could have solved several compositional problems. |
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| | Computer Music Journal - Computer Sound Synthesis in 1951: The Music of CSIRAC - The MIT Press |
| | The Australian-built "automatic computer" initially known as the CSIR Mk1, and later known as CSIRAC, was one of the world’s earliest storedprogram electronic digital computers (Williams 1997). | | | These first steps of using a computer in a musical sense occurred in isolation, but they are still interesting, because the leap of imagination in using the flexibility of a general-purpose computer to create music and the programming ingenuity required to achieve it are significant. | | | Geoff Hill, a mathematician and Australia’s first real software engineer, programmed the CSIR Mk1 to play popular musical melodies through its loudspeaker starting in 1951, if not 1950. |
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http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=13550&ttype=6
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| | Information Age CSIRAC pioneer logs off |
| | It was recomissioned as CSIRAC a year later in the University of Melbourne's computer laboratory where it performed a wide range of computing tasks until 1964. | | | He was a central figure in the establishment of computing in Melbourne and in the operation and maintenance of CSIRAC until it was retired in 1964. | | | He has been a key player in the reconstruction of the CSIRAC music (now recognised as the first computer music in the world), the documentation of the software and hardware of CSIRAC, and in the establishment of the major exhibit at Melbourne Museum. |
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http://www.infoage.idg.com.au/index.php/id;95487184
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| | ICAD 10 International Conference on Audio Display |
| | During CSIRAC's time in Melbourne the mathematics professor Thomas Cherry developed a system and program so that anyone who understood standard musical notation could create a punched paper data tape for CSIRAC to perform that music. | | | Whilst the music may seem crude and unremarkable compared to the most advanced musical developments of the time and what is possible with computers now, it is amongst the first computer music in the world and the means of production was at the leading edge of technological sophistication at the time | | | CSIRAC - The World's First Computer to Play Music. |
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http://www.icad.org/websiteV2.0/Conferences/ICAD2004/speakers.htm
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| | CSIRAC - Australian Science at Work Corporate entry |
| | This was the CSIR Mk 1 computer (later renamed CSIRAC). | | | In the late 1940s Australian scientists embarked on an ambitious project to design and build, from the ground up, a programmable digital computer. | | | Pass, Steven, CSIRAC: Australia's first computer in 1949, Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, 2000, |
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http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/asaw/biogs/A001636b.htm
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| | Australian Computing, the Second Generation - Trevor Pearcey - Section 1 |
| | Operated successfully until it was decommissioned on 24 November 1964, when it was replaced by an IBM7044/1401 combination, the CSIRAC is one of the few early machines in the world to survive as a unit. | | | From July 1956 courses in programming the CSIRAC were offered frequently by the laboratory staff, who used techniques developed earlier by Pearcey and Hill. | | | By a small margin the CSIRAC Laboratory became the first of three early academic computing laboratories. |
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http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/guides/csirac/pearcey/pearcey1.htm
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| | Collections, Object Description, Treasures, Museum Victoria celebrates 150 years, Australia, Victoria, Melbourne |
| | CSIRAC was at the cutting edge of modern computing, having been preceded only by SSEM (1948) and EDSAC (1949) in Britain and BINAC (1949) in the United States. | | | The aim was to build a machine for experimental computing. | | | Yet this behemoth could manage only 0.001 megahertz (compared with 500 in your PC) and 2000 bytes (compared with 64 megabytes plus 10 000 million in stored memory). |
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| | The Virtual Museum of Computing |
| | CSIRAC graphical on-line simulator written in Java, the first stored-memory electronic computer in Australia. | | | CSIRAC: The Birth of Computing in Australia in 1949, including a chronology. | | | Dinosaurs mating (humour) and other entries from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC). |
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| | Melbourne University Bookshop |
| | The machine they created was not only the first computer in Australia, it was one of the very first in the world. | | | The CSIRAC simulator offers a JavaScript simulator with full programming manual, a tutorial and sample programs. | | | The CSIR Mk l computer, later renamed CSIRAC, provided a computing service until well into the 1960s. |
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http://www.bookshop.unimelb.edu.au/catalogue/niagra.php?ITEMNO=9780734020246
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| | Gordon Monro - Waveform 2001 |
| | CSIRAC (completed 1949) was the first stored program computer in Australia, and the fifth such in the world. | | | By very clever programming, CSIRAC was able to play melodies, and it did so at the first Australian Computer Conference in 1951. | | | CSIRAC had a speaker to which pulses could be sent: the resulting sounds helped the engineers to monitor the computer's operation. |
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| | CSIRAC from LiveJournal |
| | I went to the Museum of Melbourne today and saw CSIRAC which is the oldest surviving first generation computer and the fourth computer ever built. | | | First stop was a short 3D movie about Expo 2005 then we saw CSIRAC, the 5th computer built in the world and the only intact first generation computer. | | | Spent some time working on the CSIRAC computer notes for the Melbourne Museum (at least now I have to pull my weight and do my bit!). |
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| | UMCS-94-4-3 A Comparative Study of Data-Flow Architectures |
| | The three systems compared are the Manchester Data-Flow Machine, the Stateless Data-Flow Architecture (also from Manchester), and the CSIRAC II machine. | | | All machines perform approximately the same amount of work when solving a collection of benchmark problems, but two systems (CSIRAC II and SDFA) exhibit successful exploitation of a memory hierarchy. | | | By counting the creation of tokens in all parts of a Data-Flow system, an accurate measure of the work performed can be obtained. |
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http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/cstechrep/Abstracts/UMCS-94-4-3.html
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| | ::fibreculture:: computer history museum |
| | Australia has CSIRAC built in the late 1940s, it was the fifth electronic stored program computer and is the oldest one intact (currently at the Melbourne Museum). | | | On a visit to Cambridge I handed the head of their Computer Lab a copy of the book "Computing in Australia". | | | Unfortunately US computer history tends to write out non-US contributions. |
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http://lists.myspinach.org/pipermail/fibreculture/2002-August/001885.html
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| | Electronic Brains - the Book: Ch 7 Australia |
| | CSIRAC encapsulated the development of computing as a world-wide process, with the leader Trevor Pearcey bringing his British wartime experience, post-war travels in the US and his assistant’s Aussie wartime experience together to bring the project to fruition. | | | He told me about the early Australian computers including the gloriously named SILLIAC, and he explained how the CSIRAC was one of the first 4 or 5 stored-program computers to run in the world. | | | The interview with Harry Messel was a joy. |
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http://www.eyes-and-ears.co.uk/ebrains/ch7oz.htm
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| | CSIRAC - Australia's First Computer |
| | At this time it was realised that CSIRAC was the oldest computer still in operation, and worthy of preservation so it was carefully dismantled and stored. | | | At the University of Melbourne Computing Laboratory CSIRAC was under the general supervision of Professor T.M.Cherry FRS and managed by Dr.F.Hirst. | | | In 1956 the improved Mark II was dismantled, loaded on trucks and driven down the Hume Highway to the University of Melbourne. |
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| | Graduated in 1939 from Sydney University and was involved in radio transmitter design and radar research until joining ... |
| | When the computer was moved to the University of Melbourne in 1955, he continued work on digital techniques and the application of computers in connection with navigational aids for civil aviation, the processing of data from radio telescopes, the control of Narrabri radio heliograph, and the control of the Siding Spring 3.9-meter telescope. | | | Graduated in 1939 from Sydney University and was involved in radio transmitter design and radar research until joining the CSIRAC project in 1947 (the first stored-memory electronic computer in Australia). | | | In 1980 he was awarded an Order of Australia Member (AM), in recognition of services to Radiophysics. |
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| | CSIRAC was Re: Off-Topic (was: Re: [LINK] mystery header) |
| | CSIRAC is the oldest electronic computer left in existance anywehere in the world. | | | CSIRAC was Re: Off-Topic (was: Re: [LINK] mystery header) | | | cheers on 24/3/01 9:28 AM, Jan Whitaker at jwhit@PrimeNet.Com wrote: > At 12:43 AM 23/03/01 +0800, Mark Tearle wrote: >> There is also CSIRAC: >> http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/csirac/music/ >> >> Yet another field that Australia has been left by the wayside in... |
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| | Vintage Computer Festival |
| | CSIRAC: The Birth of Computing in Australia in 1949 | | | Tools For Thought: The People and Ideas of the Next Computer Revolution |
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| | Self-Service Science Forum Message |
| | For more than 30 years, CSIRAC has been in mothballs, a forgotten part of computer history. | | | Unlike the other early computers, the remarkable thing is that CSIRAC -- all seven tonnes of it -- is still around today. | | | For a brief shinning moment, it seems, we were in the very forefront of this technology. |
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http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10082/20010703/www2b.abc.net.au/science/k2/stn/posts/topic302682.html
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| | Melbourne Museum [Exhibitions] Science and Life Gallery |
| | The first automatic electronic stored-program computer in Australia and one of the first in the world, CSIRAC is practically intact and is the only first-generation computer still in existence. | | | Exhibitions / Science and Life Gallery / CSIRAC — Australia’s First Computer | | | CSIRAC (pronounced sigh — rack) stands for Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Automatic Computer. |
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http://melbourne.museum.vic.gov.au/exhibitions/exh_science.asp?ID=561786
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| | ACS and CSIRAC Anniversary |
| | You may know that I have been running a campaign to ensure that the pioneering efforts of CSIR/CSIRO are not forgotten and that the computer itself (the oldest intact stored program digital computer in the world) is preserved and displayed. | | | Archiving and generating a database of the circuit diagrams (we have them!) and the software library (we have it all on 12 track paper tape!) | | | Recreating the music CSIRAC was programmed to play - we can now do this! |
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| | Melbourne IT - |
| | The Computer Science department's senior system administrator (and notable BSD Unix developer) Robert Elz was placed in charge of the.au top-level domain, an arrangement that worked quite satisfactorily through the early 1990s when the internet was of interest only to a few educational and research institutions. | | | In 1989, the University of Melbourne, an institution with a very long history of computing research dating back to CSIRAC in the mid-1950s, was the first Australian organization to be connected to the Internet. | | | Melbourne IT is perhaps best-known to the wider community for the unusual story of its origins. |
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| | LinuxSA Mailing List: Re: Computer Museum |
| | David Newall wrote: > > Melbourne has a rare treasure, the only working first-generation computer > in the world CSIRAC. | | | ABC's Quantum had a segment in 1999; I wouldn't expect a follow-up :-) On museums in general, I've seen a lot of proposals but none have got up beyond simply piles of junk simply because curatorial expertise has been lacking. | | | Because CSIRAC is a original artifact there are no plans to add the modern components that would be required to make it operational. |
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| | CEC-Conference: The International Electroacoustic Community Dis |
| | The "I" in CSIRAC is pronounced "eye" (possibly the Australia "oi" is an even closer pronouciation) and the computer itself was inspired by Pearcey's viewing of the Harvard Mk1 computer on his way to Australia. | | | Geoff Hill (the programmer who made music on CSIRAC) was born in Hawthorn in Melbourne which is also where Percy Grainger (at the age of 12) conceived of the Free Music Machine which features in some archives of the history of electronic music. | | | Apparently both Chabade and Mathews were enthusiastic about and not resistant to the CSIRAC project when it was brought to their attention by Paul Doornbusch who keeps Pearcey's memory of computer music being made before CSIRAC moved from Sydney to Melbourne alive. |
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| | Australia's first digital computer and the oldest existing example of its type, the valve-powered behemoth CSIRAC, now has a permanent home at the Melbourne Museum. | | | Apparently -- or so I heard from a retired academic -- it was shut down in 1964 after the Foreign Office in London had a word to the local powers that be, sternly informing them that Australia has no business doing research not related to primary industry (i.e. | | | Built in 1949, CSIRAC consumed 30 kilowatts, and was less powerful than a modern pocket calculator, though achieved some impressive things for its day. |
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| | Re: computer nostalgia |
| | > { There was an article in yesterday's West Australian (http://ww.thewest.com.au) about CSIRAC, probably the world's first working (as for a living) computer in the world. | | | The Compupro serial performance seemed better than > the performance on 386 boxes with the same interrupt controller and a > dumber serial chip. | | | The article was attributed to The Age, http://theage.com.au/ I did a google search on CSIRAC a week or so ago; it was very interesting reading about it and its jobs. |
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http://www.redhat.com/archives/guinness-list/2001-January/msg00332.html
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| | IP: Electronic dinosaur is dusted off |
| | > > Never mind that today's calculators are more powerful >- CSIRAC overshadows > them with its sheer magnitude. | | | And this week >CSIRAC celebrates the 50th > anniversary of running its first program. | | | It is being >restored with the help of two > of the original electronic engineers, Mr Ron Bowles >and Mr Jurij Semkiw. |
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| | Melbourne Museum: InfoZone: |
| | A recent visitor to Melbourne Museum asked to see the CSIRAC computer for a special reason. | | | Dr Garnham also worked with the Department of Meteorology and used CSIRAC on weekends to take profiles of the ozone layer. | | | He was using CSIRAC when it suddenly stopped working. |
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| | Tubes Asylum - CSIRAC - Mark Kelly, August 28, 2002 at 18:34:29 |
| | Of simillar vintage to ENIAC shown, it is believed to be the oldest operating digital electronic computer. | | | In Reply to: PC Motherboard with many Sovtek 6922's posted by Paul_A on August 28, 2002 at 17:49:59: | | | If you are interested CSIRAC is still in operating condition in Melbourne Museum. |
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| | 1940s Computer Blasts Through .001MHz Barrier |
| | A LEADING EDGE computer called the CSIRAC, which is claimed to be the first computer in the world to play music, is on its last legs in an Australian museum -- like Mageek it's pegging out. | | | The machine was built in 1949, weighs a few tons, and consumed enough electricity to light up a street. | | | December 10, 2002: 8:41 AM EST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Avon Products Inc. said Tuesday it expects to report fourth-quarter earnings slightly ahead of its... |
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| | CEC-Conference: The International Electroacoustic Community Dis |
| | And just to clarify a few fine points (lest they become propagated | | | Actually, there were never any composers working with CSIRAC - that | | | as fact), CSIRAC was built and first played music in Sydney in 1950 |
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| | Csirac - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | The Music of CSIRAC: Australia's First Computer Music | | | Home - Link to Us - Add to favorites |
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| | csirac - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "csirac" is defined. | | | We found 2 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word csirac: |
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| | The Pedia - CSIRAC |
| | The CSIRAC was constructed by a team led by... | | | CSIRAC was shut down for the last time... |
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| | The macosxhints Forums - View Profile: csirac |
| | csirac is not a member of any public groups | | | Site design © 2002-2005 macosxhints.com; individuals retain copyright of their postings |
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| | MS Megabyte |
| | Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone is there, along with a whole history of telecommunications. | | | See if you can find the little toy mouse on a ladder... | | | For a complete history of CSIRAC, visit http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/csirac/ |
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