CSIRAC computer
CSIRAC
- Date
- 1949 · confidence high
- Place
- CSIR Radiophysics Laboratory, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Credited to
- Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard
- People
- 👤 Trevor Pearcey1919–1998
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
One of the world's first stored-program computers and the only first-generation machine to survive complete. In 1950-1951 it was the first to play music.
It is considered the fourth or fifth stored-program computer; it is held at Melbourne Museum.
What it led to
- computing in Australia
- computer music