Because it's the only machine of its era left on the planet. "Of the handful of computers operating before 1950 it's the only ...

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, 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 ...

We don’t think twice about playing music via a computer – we have them in our pockets, and in our homes and offices, with music on tap. But playing music on a computer was once an almost unthinkable ...

Today's new world of computer science met the old recently when senior executives from the CSIRO's ICT Centre paid a visit to the University of Melbourne to see CSIRAC, Australia's first and the world ...

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 ...

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?

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 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 ...