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	CSIRAC - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		CSIRAC (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer), originally known as CSIR Mk I, was Australia's first digital computer, and the fifth stored program computer in the world and presently the oldest intact (albeit inoperable) digital computer in the world.
		The CSIRAC was constructed by a team led by Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard, working in large part independently of similar efforts across Europe and the United States, and ran its first test program some time in November 1949.
		In 1955, with the CSIR's decision that computing research was outside its purview, the machine was transferred from its home at the Radiophysics Laboratory at the CSIR in Sydney, to the University of Melbourne, where it served until 1964 as Australia's only academic computing facility.
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		The ENIAC was originally designed to calculate ballistics-firing tables for artillery, but it was also used to calculate neutron cross-sectional densities to help in the design of the hydrogen bomb
		(Many of the most powerful supercomputers available today are also used for nuclear weapons simulations.) The CSIR Mk I, the first Australian stored-program computer, was amongst many other tasks used for the evaluation of rainfall patterns for the catchment area of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a large hydroelectric generation project
		Others were used in cryptanalysis, for example the first programmable (though not general-purpose) digital electronic computer, Colossus, built in 1943 during World War II.
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		ENIAC, an early US computer, calculated neutron cross-sectional densities to see if the hydrogen bomb would work properly.
		The CSIR Mk I, the first Australian computer, evaluated rainfall patterns for the catchment of the Snowy Mountains scheme, a large hydroelectric generation project.
		Others were used in cryptanalysis, for example the world's first programmable digital electronic computer, Colossus, built during World War II.
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