SPEEDAC

For the filing system, see L.B. Speedac

SPEEDAC, the SPErry Electronic Digital Automatic Computer, was an early digital computer built by Sperry Corporation in 1953.[1]

It used 800 vacuum tubes and had magnetic drum storage of 4096 18-bit words.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Herbert Freeman, Cobblestones: The Story of My Life, p. 39
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