Editing CSIRAC (section)

==History==
The CSIRAC was constructed by a team led by [[Trevor Pearcey]] and Maston Beard, working in large part independently of similar efforts across [[Europe]] and the [[United States]], and ran its first test program (multiplication of numbers) sometime in November 1949.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cis.unimelb.edu.au/about/csirac/chron|title=CSIRAC Chronology: CSIRAC, University of Melbourne|website=cis.unimelb.edu.au|others=David Hornsby, Doug McCann, Peter Thorne|date=12 August 2021 |access-date=2023-06-24}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Doornbusch|first=Paul|date=March 2004|title=Computer Sound Synthesis in 1951: The Music of CSIRAC|journal=Computer Music Journal|language=en|volume=28|issue=1|pages=11–12|doi=10.1162/014892604322970616|s2cid=10593824|issn=0148-9267|doi-access=free}}</ref> In restricted operation from late 1950, publicly demonstrated and operational in 1951.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=October 1952|title=9. C.S.I.R.O. Mark I|url=http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0694606|journal=Digital Computer Newsletter|language=en|volume=4|issue=4|pages=6}}{{dead link|date=June 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>{{sfn|McCann|Thorne|2000|pp=viii, 2-3, 27, 30, 77, 79-80}}<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_onrASurveyomputers1953_8778395|title=A survey of automatic digital computers|last1=Research|first1=United States Office of Naval|date=1953|publisher=Office of Naval Research, Dept. of the Navy|page=[https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_onrASurveyomputers1953_8778395/page/n27 22]|language=en}}</ref>