DYSEAC

DYSEAC

DYSEAC

1954 type of computer

DYSEAC was the second Standards Electronic Automatic Computer. (See SEAC.)

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DYSEAC was a first-generation computer built by the National Bureau of Standards for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. It was housed in a truck, making it one of the first movable computers (perhaps the first). It went into operation in April 1954.[1]

DYSEAC used 900 vacuum tubes and 24,500 crystal diodes. It had a memory of 512 words of 45 bits each (plus 1 parity bit), using mercury delay-line memory. Memory access time was 48–384 microseconds. The addition time was 48 microseconds, and the multiplication/division time was 2112 microseconds. These times are excluding the memory-access time, which added up to approximately 1500 microseconds to those times.

DYSEAC weighed about 20 short tons (18 t).[2]

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References

  1. [1]
    "9. Bureau of Standards Computers – DYSEAC". Digital Computer Newsletter. 6 (4): 7. October 1954.
  2. [2]
    Weik, Martin H. (March 1961). "DYSEAC". ed-thelen.org. A Third Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems.
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