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The CSIRAC Story - Australia's First Computer
museumvictoria.com.au — CSIRAC ’s story began in 1936, when British mathematician Alan Turing described his idea for a computing machine capable of solving any numerical problem.
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- dtele, on 03/18/2008, -1/+5Thanks muxaulo -
I never actually knew this - and in 'my own backyard' !- muxaulo, on 03/18/2008, -0/+2My sentiments precisely.
- pwner84, on 03/18/2008, -13/+1how does this lame ***** make the front page?
- abszint, on 03/18/2008, -9/+1***** the mpaa
- fuhcough, on 03/18/2008, -8/+1because clearly 30+ people thought it was diggworth. /sarcasm
- filefly, on 03/18/2008, -4/+3Is this pronounced as "Sizzirack"?
- lerker, on 03/18/2008, -0/+3More like "SY-rack" - the C is silent.
A bit of trivia: There's an Australian government science/technology research body called the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The common vocalisation is either to spell the abbreviation or pronounce it SY-ro.
- lerker, on 03/18/2008, -0/+3More like "SY-rack" - the C is silent.
- Joest23, on 03/18/2008, -14/+1Why the ***** should I care about Australia's first computer?
- craighoxton, on 03/18/2008, -10/+2Until this day I thought I'd never see the words "Australian" and "technology" in the same story
- bosssmiley, on 03/18/2008, -1/+9CSIRAC was made entirely from corrugated iron and baling twine, and was reprogrammed - as is all Australian technology - by poking it with a screwdriver. It was also the first computer powered by beer.
- waalter, on 03/18/2008, -1/+2But certainly not the last.
- satanswetnipple, on 03/18/2008, -0/+1During the early nineties, Australia was a leader in Modem and Genlock technology. There was even one company creating a high end professional video card.
- bosssmiley, on 03/18/2008, -1/+9CSIRAC was made entirely from corrugated iron and baling twine, and was reprogrammed - as is all Australian technology - by poking it with a screwdriver. It was also the first computer powered by beer.
- garvallagh, on 03/18/2008, -2/+8Cryptonomicon covers this. good read and light hearted look at WW2 and computers and *****.
- social101, on 03/18/2008, -1/+0Hey! muxaulo, good job. I can say historical pics of them.:)
- clintonforbes, on 03/18/2008, -1/+7For those hard-core nostalgic nerds, here is a CSIRAC emulator:
http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/dept/about/csirac/e ... - clintonforbes, on 03/18/2008, -3/+1For those hard-core nostalgic nerds, here is a CSIRAC emulator:
http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/dept/about/csirac/e ... - shannon30338, on 03/18/2008, -2/+1Did it have a kangaroo logo on the front?
- blipblipbeep, on 03/18/2008, -1/+1Nice. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!
- blipblipbeep, on 03/18/2008, -2/+1hay u digg downers bite the big one. this is real news, not the fact that someones president really sucks we all ready know that.
blipblipbeep out - IdanH14, on 03/18/2008, -1/+1Nice story. I love reading about old things and how they were constructed. Thank you, muxaulo.
- ocolopusONE, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1We (Australians) also invented the digital sampler : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairlight without us modern music wouldn't exist in it's current form... ok someone else would probably have eventually created it but things would have taken alot longer. Enough with the negative stereotypes... I live in a modern city and work in Video game development... I have never hunted kangaroo, thrown a boomerang or been threatened by a bushfire (ok once but it was on a school camp out in the country) I'd like to see American diggers being more respectful to those who aren't digging about the USA.
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