RAYDAC was a one-of-a-kind computer built by Raytheon, begun in 1949 and finished in 1953, and installed at the Naval Air Missile Test Center at Point Mugu, California. It used 5,200 vacuum tubes and 18,000 crystal diodes, with 1,152 words of delay-line memory reaching an access time of up to 305 microseconds, an addition time of 38 microseconds, a multiplication time of 240 microseconds and a division time of 375 microseconds.
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SignificanceOne of the first digital computers to use error detection on all operations. 2 Sources
1. RAYDAC, Wikipedia
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It was started in 1949 and finished in 1953.
2. The RAYDAC by Louis Fein, Computer History Museum catalog
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one of the first digital computers to use error detection on all operations
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