Editing Strela computer (section)

==Overview==
This [[first-generation computer]] had 6200 [[vacuum tube]]s and 60,000 [[semiconductor]] [[diode]]s.

Strela's speed was 2000 operations per second. Its floating-point arithmetic was based on 43-bit [[floating point]] words, with a signed 35-bit [[significand|mantissa]] and a signed 6-bit [[exponent]].

Operative [[Williams tube]] memory (RAM) had 2048 words. It also used [[read-only memory#Other technologies|read-only semiconductor diode memory]] for programs.  It used [[punched card]]s or magnetic tape for data input and magnetic tape, punched cards and/or wide printer for data.<ref name="Trogemann_2001" /> The last version of Strela used a 4096-word [[magnetic drum]], rotating at 6000&nbsp;[[Revolutions per minute|rpm]].

While {{ill|Yury Bazilevslky|ru|Базилевский, Юрий Яковлевич}} was officially Strela's chief designer, [[Bashir Rameyev]], who developed the project prior to Bazilevsky's appointment, could be considered its main inventor.<ref name=":1_1995"/><ref name=":0"/> Strela was constructed at the Special Design Bureau 245 (Argon R&D Institute since 1986) in [[Moscow]].

Strelas were manufactured by the {{ill|Moscow Computing-Analytical Machine Plant|ru|Завод счётно-аналитических машин имени В. Д. Калмыкова}} (счетно-аналитических машин) ({{langx|ru|Московский завод счётно-аналитических машин имени В. Д. Калмыкова}}) during 1953–1957; 7 copies were manufactured. They were installed in the Computing Centre of the [[USSR Academy of Sciences]], [[Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics]], [[Moscow State University]], and in computing centres of some ministries related to defense and economic planning.

In 1954, the designers of Strela were awarded the [[State Stalin Prize|Stalin Prize]] of 1st degree (Bashir Rameyev, Yu. Bazilevsky, V. Alexandrov,  D. Zhuchkov, I. Lygin, G. Markov, B. Melnikov, G. Prokudayev,  N. Trubnikov, A. Tsygankin, Yu. Shcherbakov, L. Larionova).

The impetus for the development of Strela was a BBC broadcast heard by Bashir Rameyev about the American development of [[ENIAC]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lotysz |first1=Slawomir |title=COMPUTER SECRETS LEAKED VIA THE... RADIO? |url=http://www.inventingeurope.eu/story/computer-secrets-leaked-via-the-radio |website=European Digital Muserum for Science & Technology |access-date=Oct 17, 2019}}</ref>