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It was in the late fifties when we ran one of the first application programs on the computer we just had finished at the Technical University of Vienna. We were a group of young people led by Heinz Zemanek, engaged in one of the early university computer projects of those times. The computer became known under the poetic name of ‘Mailuefterl’ and was the first one in Europe built entirely with transistor technology. Mailuefterl had fifty words of core store, 10.000 words of drum store, paper tape input and typewriter output, and an internal speed of 2.000 words per second [16] [04].
Supported by OEGIG, the Austrian Society for the History of Computing
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Walk, K. (2002). Roots of Computing in Austria. In: Brunnstein, K., Berleur, J. (eds) Human Choice and Computers. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 98. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35609-9_7
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