Editing SILLIAC (section)

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[[File:SILLIAC being services.jpg|right|thumb|SILLIAC being serviced by Peter Aplin of Sydney University]]

The '''SILLIAC''' ('''''S'''ydney version of the [[ILLIAC I|'''Ill'''inois '''A'''utomatic '''C'''omputer]]'', i.e. the '''''S'''ydney '''ILLIAC'''''), an early [[computer]] built by the [[University of Sydney]], [[Australia]], was based on the ILLIAC and [[ORDVAC]] computers developed at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign|University of Illinois]].

Like other early computers, SILLIAC was physically large. The computer itself was a single large cabinet 2.5&nbsp;m high, 3&nbsp;m wide and 0.6&nbsp;m deep in one room. Its power supply occupied a second room and [[air conditioning]] required an additional room in the basement.

It ran until May 17, 1968, when it was replaced by a faster and bigger machine. Although it was then broken up, some pieces of SILLIAC are at the Powerhouse Museum and others are displayed at Sydney University.