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CSIRAC (/ ˈ s aɪ r æ k /; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer), originally known as CSIR Mk 1, was Australia's first digital computer, and the fifth stored program computer in the world. [1]
Trevor Pearcey (5 March 1919 – 27 January 1998) was a British-born Australian scientist, who created CSIRAC, one of the first stored-program electronic computers in the world. Born in Woolwich, London, he graduated from Imperial College in 1940 with first class honours in physics and mathematics. He emigrated to Australia in 1945.
The Melbourne Museum is a natural and cultural history museum located in the Carlton Gardens in Melbourne, Australia. Located adjacent to the Royal Exhibition Building , [ 1 ] the museum was opened in 2000 as a project of the Government of Victoria , on behalf of Museums Victoria which administers the venue.
It was over 1,000 times faster than the mechanical calculators available at the time. It was decommissioned in 1955 and recommissioned in Melbourne as CSIRAC in 1956 as a general purpose computing machine used by over 700 projects until 1964. [36] The CSIRAC is the only surviving first-generation computer in the world. [37]
Paul Doornbusch (born 1959, Melbourne) is an Australian composer [1] and musician. [2] [3] [4] He is the author of a book documenting the first computer music, made with the CSIRAC. [5] Doornbusch spent several years at RMIT University in Melbourne, and later taught at the New Zealand School of Music. He now lives in the Melbourne area. [2] [3]
Melbourne Planetarium is housed on site. Until late 2013, the 1883 clock tower from Flinders Street station was also located at the museum. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The clock had been moved to Princes Bridge station in 1905 and Spencer Street station in 1911, where it remained until sold into private ownership after the station redevelopment of 1967. [ 6 ]
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Bird banding in Australia (1964) [35] The computer CSIRAC (1965) [3] Window into space (1965) [4] about the Parkes radio-telescope; Birth of the red kangaroo (1965) [1] about reproduction of the Red kangaroo; A skeleton in the crop (1969) [7] about the introduced invasive skeleton weed; In Central Australia with Crosbie Morrison (1970)