The first digital computers built in Australia in the 1950s. CSIRAC, originally known as CSIR Mk 1, was built by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and was Australia's first digital computer, and SILLIAC was built by the University of Sydney and was based on the ILLIAC and ORDVAC computers developed at the University of Illinois. Like other early computers, they were physically large machines assembled in laboratories.
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CSIRAC (; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer), originally known as CSIR Mk 1, was Australia's first digital computer, and is the fifth stored-program computer in the world.
SILLIAC, Wikipedia
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The SILLIAC (Sydney version of the Illinois Automatic Computer, i.e. the Sydney ILLIAC), an early computer built by the University of Sydney, Australia, was based on the ILLIAC and ORDVAC computers developed at the University of Illinois.
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