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    CSIRAC (/ˈsaɪræk/; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer), originally known as CSIR Mk 1, was Australia's first digital computer...
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  • generated by the computer originally named the CSIR Mark 1 (later renamed CSIRAC) in Australia in 1950. There were newspaper reports from America and England...
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  • play music was CSIRAC, which was designed and built by Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard. Mathematician Geoff Hill programmed the CSIRAC to play popular...
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  • programmer Geoff Hill on the CSIRAC computer which was designed and built by Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard. However, CSIRAC produced sound by sending raw...
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    Manchester Baby, EDSAC, Manchester Mark 1, Ferranti Pegasus, Ferranti Mercury, CSIRAC, EDVAC, UNIVAC I, IBM 701, IBM 702, IBM 650, Z22 Third generation (discrete...
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    recommissioned in Melbourne as CSIRAC in 1956 as a general purpose computing machine used by over 700 projects until 1964. The CSIRAC is the only surviving first-generation...
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  • the "Colonel Bogey March" was the first music played by a computer, by CSIRAC, a computer developed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research...
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    (SSEC) used paper tape with 74 rows. Australia's 1951 electronic computer, CSIRAC, used 3-inch (76 mm) wide paper tape with twelve rows. A row of smaller...
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    peripherals. Anecdotally termed the digit trunk in the early Australian CSIRAC computer, they were named after electrical power buses, or busbars. Almost...
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  • – 27 January 1998) was a British-born Australian scientist, who created CSIRAC, one of the first stored-program electronic computers in the world. Born...
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  • synthesis). In June 1951, the first computer music Colonel Bogey was played on CSIRAC, Australia's first digital computer. In 1956, Lejaren Hiller at the University...
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  • various displays relating to Victoria's and Australia's history, including CSIRAC (an early computer built in Australia) Located eight-storeys beneath Melbourne...
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    not the first attempt to generate sound with a computer (an Australian CSIRAC computer played tunes as early as 1951), Mathews fathered generations of...
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  • after Trevor Pearcey, an Australian engineer who led the team that created CSIRAC, Australia's first and one of the world's earliest digital computers. As...
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    JSTOR 40543045, S2CID 159510351 CSIRAC: Australia's first computer, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRAC), 3 June 2005, archived...
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  • the author of a book documenting the first computer music, made with the CSIRAC. Doornbusch spent several years at RMIT University in Melbourne, and later...
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  • considerably faster than the mechanical systems used on earlier computers. CSIRAC, completed in November 1949, also used delay-line memory. Some mercury delay-line...
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  • Alan Turing. It was not, however, the first computer to have played music; CSIRAC, Australia's first digital computer, achieved that with a rendition of "Colonel...
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    Beyond Perception: Seeing the Unseen (opened 2018) Steam-driven pump engine CSIRAC computer display Spotswood Pumping Station French, Robert (27 March 2022)...
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    (University of Manchester, England) Developed from the Baby (June 1949) CSIRAC (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Australia (November 1949)...
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    be found in the early history of computer music. In 1951, the computers CSIRAC and Ferranti Mark 1 were used to perform real-time synthesized digital music...
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    Influences. The journal features technology as diverse as totalisators and the CSIRAC computer. Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction (Blackwell...
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    sounds through technology. The world's first computer to play music was CSIRAC in 1950–1, designed and built by Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard and programmed...
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    Bomb Snooper Producer, writer, presenter 4:50 1999 Quantum The Computer CSIRAC Producer, writer, presenter 5:15 1999 Quantum Frog Killer Producer, writer...
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  • 1949) Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer (CSIRAC, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Australia (November 1949)...
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    provide plans and assistance. John Algie, then maintenance engineer for CSIRAC, estimated the cost at AU£35,200, which was approximately ten times the...
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    second generation around 1955. 1949 Australia CSIR Mk I (later known as CSIRAC), Australia's first computer, ran its first test program. It was a vacuum-tube-based...
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  • Trevor Pearcey (1919–1998), British born Australian scientist who created CSIRAC, one of the first stored program electronic computers Pearcy Pearcey Award...
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    Study, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, US. 1951 Australia CSIRAC used to play music – the first time a computer was used as a musical instrument...
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    February 2021. McCann, Doug; Thorne, Peter (2000). The last of the first, CSIRAC: Australia's first computer. Victoria, Australia: The University of Melbourne...
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