Beginnings of a revolution - The Computing Universe: A Journey through a Revolution - page 17

TL.1.8 LEO, a successful business computer,
used by a chain of Lyon's tea shops.

TL.1.9 The first Soviet computer was built in a
monastic hostel near Kiev.

TL.1.7 The first stored-program computer
constructed in Australia used a mercury line
memory and could generate music.

CSIR Mark 1 LEO MESM

1949 1951 1951

IAS Whirlwind UNIVAC

1952 1951 1952

TL.1.11 The first flight simulator computer
was used for training bomber crews.

TL.1.12 Presper Ekert (center) demonstrating
the UNIVAC to CBS reporter Walter Cronkite.
The machine was used to predict the results of
the 1952 U.S. election, but even the program-
mers did not believe their (correct) prediction,
made after only 7% of the vote was in: a land-
slide win for Eisenhower instead of the close
election predicted by the pollsters.

TL.1.10 The IAS machine was a prototype for
many computers because the design was not
patented and was widely disseminated. The pro-
grams running on the computer were mainly
calculations for the H-bomb, but also biological
simulations.