Talk:BINAC

"World's first commercial digital computer"
Both the Z4 article and the BINAC article claim to be the "world's first commerical digital computer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Z4_%28computer%29&oldid=619761555

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BINAC&oldid=631071670 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.14.104.215 (talk) 09:24, 2 November 2014 (UTC)


 * The Ferranti Mark 1 article claims it as the world's first commercially available general-purpose electronic computer. It states that although it was preceded by the BINAC and the electro-mechanical Z4, BINAC was not intended to be a general-purpose computer and was never used for its intended purpose see:.


 * Does a one-of-a-kind computer may be considered as "commercial" at all?--89.25.210.104 (talk) 18:48, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

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BINAC & Short Code
This book (History of Programming Languages) claims that Short Code operated on a BINAC in 1949.--89.25.210.104 (talk) 21:56, 20 May 2018 (UTC)