1950s computers

vacuum tube computer

historic computer network

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early computer model

Early British computer

IBM scientific computer released in 1959

MESM (Ukrainian: MEOM, Мала Електронна Обчислювальна Машина; Russian: МЭСМ, Малая Электронно-Счетная Машина; 'Small Electronic Calculating Machine') was the first universally programmable electronic computer in the Soviet Union. By some authors, it was also depicted as the first one in continental Europe, even though the electromechanical computers Zuse Z4 and the Swedish BARK preceded it.

first mainframe computer manufactured serially in the Soviet Union

thumb|Section of WEIZAC on display (2007). WEIZAC (Weizmann Automatic Computer) was the first computer in Israel, and one of the first large-scale, stored-program, electronic computers in the world.

extremely limited computer released in 1950, intended as an educational demonstration of the concepts behind digital computers

1956 computer design

first-generation electronic computer built in 1950

1952 electronic stored-program computer

thumb|DASK in :da:Danmarks Tekniske Museum|Danmarks Tekniske Museum. The DASK was the first computer in Denmark. It was commissioned in 1955, designed and constructed by Regnecentralen, and began operation in September 1957. DASK is an acronym for Dansk Aritmetisk Sekvens Kalkulator or Danish Arithmetic Sequence Calculator. Regnecentralen almost did not allow the name, as the word dask means "slap" in Danish. In the end, however, it was named so as it fit the pattern of the name BESK, the Swedish computer which provided the initial architecture for DASK.

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thumb|BESK control panel thumb|Drum memory (bottom) and core memory (upper right) for the BESK computer

thumb|Today the is in the Technisches Museum Wien.

early computer from 1958