BARK (computer)

Early Swedish relay computer

BARK (Swedish: Binär Aritmetisk (Automatisk) Relä-Kalkylator, lit. 'Binary Arithmetic (Automatic) Relay Calculator') was an early electromechanical computer built in 1950. BARK was built using standard telephone relays, implementing a 32-bit binary machine.

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BARK (computer)

Early Swedish relay computer

BARK (Swedish: Binär Aritmetisk (Automatisk) Relä-Kalkylator, lit. 'Binary Arithmetic (Automatic) Relay Calculator') was an early electromechanical computer built in 1950. BARK was built using standard telephone relays, implementing a 32-bit binary machine.

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BARK (Swedish: Binär Aritmetisk (Automatisk) Relä-Kalkylator, lit. 'Binary Arithmetic (Automatic) Relay Calculator') was an early electromechanical computer built in 1950. BARK was built using standard telephone relays, implementing a 32-bit binary machine. It could perform addition in 150 ms and multiplication in 250 ms. It had a memory with 50 registers and 100 constants. The memory was later expanded to twice that. Howard Aiken stated in reference to BARK "This is the first computer I have seen outside Harvard that actually works."

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