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    BESK (Binär Elektronisk SekvensKalkylator, Swedish for "Binary Electronic Sequence Calculator") was Sweden's first electronic computer, using vacuum tubes...
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  • Besk or variant, may refer to: Besk, Khoshab, Razavi Khorasan Province Besk, Sabzevar, Razavi Khorasan Province Besk, Torbat-e Heydarieh, Razavi Khorasan...
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  • SAAB's calculating machine) was developed by SAAB when the capacity of BESK was insufficient for their needs. The project was started the fall of 1955...
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  • Nowy Besk [ˈnɔvɨ ˈbɛsk] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Grabów, within Łęczyca County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies...
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    liquors.[citation needed] Bäsk is an old alternative spelling of the word besk which means "bitter". In the United States, the Chicago-based brand Jeppson's...
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    Wallmark. BESK - Binär Elektronisk Sekvens-Kalkylator - Sweden's second computer. Elsa-Karin Boestad-Nilsson, a programmer on BARK and BESK SMIL - SifferMaskinen...
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    that was manufactured by Åtvidabergs Industrier AB after the designs for BESK, that had been developed by the Swedish Board for Computing Machinery...
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    of BESK, the rapid advancement in the field allowed improvements to be made during the development such that in the end, it was not a copy of BESK. The...
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  • similar spirit renamed theirs beforehand. Letherbee reverted to the generic "Bësk", while FEW Spirits dubbed theirs "Anguish and Regret". Snaps Absinthe Chicago...
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  • Stary Besk [ˈstarɨ ˈbɛsk] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Grabów, within Łęczyca County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies...
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  • Besk (Persian: بسك) is a village in Beyhaq Rural District, Sheshtomad District, Sabzevar County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its...
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  • Beskabad (redirect from Besk Abad)
    Boskabad (Persian: بسكاباد, also Romanized as Bosḵābād and Bosk Ābād) is a village in Nimbeluk Rural District, Nimbeluk District, Qaen County, South Khorasan...
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    Herschel R. Oldham, was wounded in the left arm and leg. Prison Guard Elmus Besk, was wounded in the leg and face. Prison Guard Robert C. Bristow, was shot...
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    developed BESK began in 1960 the work to develop a new semiconductor based computer. The plan was to create a faster machine with the experiences from BESK as...
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  • Besk (Persian: بسك) is a village in Yam Rural District, Meshkan District, Khoshab County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population...
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    Some of these "IAS machines" were: AVIDAC (Argonne National Laboratory) BESK (Stockholm) BESM (Moscow) Circle Computer (Hogan Laboratories, Inc.), 1954...
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  • Besk (Persian: بسك; also known as Besg, Baiāq, Bāyak, Bāyg, and Bish Baik) is a village in Bayg Rural District, Bayg District, Torbat-e Heydarieh County...
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  • on Wikipedia. Bask, Iran (disambiguation), for places primarily spelled "Besk" but also spelled "Bask" Pulin Bihari Baske (born 1968), Indian politician...
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    National Laboratory (1953) ORACLE at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (June 1953) BESK in Stockholm (1953) JOHNNIAC at RAND Corporation (January 1954) DASK in Denmark...
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  • designing a ferromagnetic surface layer to the magnetic drum memory for the BESK computer. When designing a magnetic memory store, the ferromagnetic layer...
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  • the TVN telenovela La Colorina. Specialized in comedic roles, Jiménez is besk known for the role of Diana "La Jirafa" Smith in the TNC sitcom Los Venegas...
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    lectures with the same literary talent and fine artistic taste which marked his besk known works" (according to Brockhaus & Efron). His 1878 doctorate "Robert...
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    Drum memory from the BESK computer, Sweden's first binary computer, which made its debut in 1953...
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    (Matematikmaskinnämnden), working on (among other things) the early computer BESK, Sweden's first. During this time, he also worked with Carl-Gustaf Rossby...
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  • mathematician who discovered the 18th Mersenne prime in 1957, using the computer BESK: this prime is 23217-1 and consists of 969 digits. He held the record for...
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  • pioneer who programmed the first and second computers in Sweden, BARK and BESK. Boestad-Nilsson was born on 25 November 1925 in Stockholm, the daughter...
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  • back to December 1954, when Saab got a license to build its own copy of BESK, an early Swedish computer design using vacuum tubes, from Matematikmaskinnämnden...
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    ..315071 969 335708...525056 1,937 September 8, 1957 Hans Riesel LLT on BESK 19 4,253 190797...484991 1,281 182017...377536 2,561 November 3, 1961 Alexander...
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  • (70 mph) was created at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology on the BESK computer. The short animation was broadcast on November 9, 1961, on national...
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    forecasting by electronic computer, having started this activity in Sweden using BESK. In 1947 he became founding director of the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological...
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