Melbourne November 2007 - Page 2

CSIRAC Australia's First Computer and the Worlds only intact surviving first generation computer in the world

CSIRAC circa 1949

CSIRAC with it's I/O devices

I actually worked on a very similar computer at the University of Alberta in 1967.

It was used for power line distribution simulation.

Hundreds of valves (tubes for you North Americans)

where used to form the "flip flops" that really made the machine work.

Mercury delay line - used for short term data storage during calculations....

(Magnetic storage was used what longer term storage of programs)

A windmill display!

Closer detail of one of the windmills.....

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