Australia's first computer, the fourth in the world, was a supercomputer for its time (1949) — revolutionising everything from weather forecasting to banking, and playing the first ever computer music ...

It filled a room the size of a double garage and had only a fraction of the brainpower of the cheapest electronic organiser. But Australia's first computer, the fourth in the world, was a ...

The world's oldest operational computer celebrates its 53rd birthday this year. CSIRAC, named after the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (later renamed to CSIRO) which built the machine ...

Australia's first computer weighed two tonnes, filled a large room and had a tiny fraction of the capacity of today's typical smartphone. But why would such a machine continue to be relevant today?

Past meets the present at CSIRAC In another connection to the past, Museum Victoria CEO, Dr Patrick Greene, said his own connection with early computer history was brought about when he lived in a ...

Adjunct professor of computer science at The University of Melbourne and Associate Dean, Australian College of the Arts., The University of Melbourne We don’t think twice about playing music via a ...

In 1936, Turing published On Computable Numbers, With an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem, deemed the most influential document of the computer age. With this he laid the foundations for the ...

AUSTRALIA’S oldest computer turns 60 next week, and it’s not as compact as an iPhone 6. We take a look back at the progression of computers in Victoria from monstrous to minuscule. But this wall of ...

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