In 2008, senior curator David Demant gave a talk about CSIRAC at the Computer History Museum in California's Silicon Valley. CSIRAC is the only surviving first-generation computer in the world, and is a key item in MV's Information and Communication Collection.
Following David's visit, two CSIRAC items were borrowed by the Computer History Museum for their new exhibition Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing. The objects - a replica paper tape that holds a CSIRAC program and an amplifier from CSIRAC's memory - feature in a section called 'The Birth of the Computer' beside the 1953 computer JOHNIAC.
Display case containing CSIRAC amplifier and paper tape at the Computer History Museum.
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JOHNIAC on display in the exhibition Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing.
Source: Computer History Museum
It's great to see an Australian-built computer - and the fourth computer ever built - represented in this important timeline of computing history.
Links:
CSIRAC: Australia's First Computer
What's On: CSIRAC
Computer History Museum