TIFRAC, first Indian electronic computer
TIFRAC, primer ordenador electrónico indio
- Date
- 1960 · confidence high
- Place
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay (Mumbai), Maharashtra, India
- Credited to
- Rangaswamy Narasimhan and the TIFR team
- People
- 👤 Rangaswamy Narasimhan1926–2007
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Valve computer with ferrite-core memory inspired by the IAS architecture, designed and built in India and in service from 1960. It trained the country's first computer scientists.
The ISI Calcutta built a small analogue computer in parallel and later the ISIJU with Jadavpur University (1966).
What it led to
- computing education and research in India
- Indian computer industry