I must first appologise for the total lack of UK relevance to this post.
The base machine is US & many of the copies are US, but there is
a significant number of European clones. I hope that is adequate
justification.
So, I am part way through writing a history of Sydney University's copy of
von Neumann's IAS, via Uni Illinois, called SILLIAC. As part of it I am
making a list of the IAS family. I have start dates for all of these
(though often from only 1 source & that mainly HH Goldstine's book).
Can anyone fill in close down dates for me? I have quite a bit more
about some of these machines & almost nothing about some (like the Russian
BESM). My list (so far) is
Machine For When
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ORDVAC US Army Aberdeen
Completed November 1951 Accepted March 1952.
MANIAC Los Alamos National Laboratory
Operational March 1952.
IAS computer Princeton University
Completed June 1952. 1960 to the Smithsonian Institution.
ILLIAC I University of Illinois
Completed September 1952.
AVIDAC Argonne National Lab
completed 28 January 1953 and accepted in March.
IBM 701 IBM sold about 19 systems
Sold April 1953 to April 1955.
ORACLE Oak Ridge National Lab
completed September 1953.
JOHNNIAC Rand Corporation
Accepted March 1954. Retired in 1966. At Moffett Field Museum.
GEORGE Atomic Energy Commission
completed September 1957.
MISTIC Michigan State Uni
Completed in 1957.
CYCLONE Iowa State Uni
Completed July 1959.
non US copies
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BESM Moscow ?
Completed in 1952.
BESK Swedish Royal Institute of Technology
completed November 1953.
WEIZAC Weizmann Institute, Israel
ran from 1954 to the early 1960s. It is preserved at the Institute.
PERM Munich Technical Institute Germany
Completed in 1955.
SILLIAC Sydney University Australia
completed June 1956. Closed down in May 1968.
SMIL Lund University Sweden
completed June 1956.
DASK Danish Academy of Technical Sciences
A copy of BESK completed mid 1957.
MUSASINO-1 NTT Japan
used from November 1957 to July 1962.
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These are certainly not all physical copies of the IAS, but I _think_
they all share major architectural features.
Thanks.
John Deane
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