Editing BARK (computer) (section)

{{Short description|Early Swedish electromechanical computer}}
[[File:Conny Palm (6979247547).jpg|thumb|Conny Palm and BARK.]]

'''BARK''' ({{Langx|sv|Binär Aritmetisk (Automatisk) Relä-Kalkylator|lit=Binary Arithmetic (Automatic) Relay Calculator}}) was an early [[Electromechanics|electromechanical computer]] built in 1950. BARK was built using standard [[relay|telephone relay]]s, implementing a [[32-bit]] binary machine. It could perform addition in 150 ms and multiplication in 250 ms. It had a memory with 50 [[Hardware register|registers]] and 100 constants. It was later expanded to double the memory. [[Howard Aiken]] stated in reference to BARK "This is the first computer I have seen outside Harvard that actually works."{{citation needed |date=April 2025 |reason=And when did he say that?}}