Engineering:DYSEAC

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DYSEAC
DYSEAC van 1.jpg
DYSEAC van No. 1
ManufacturerNational Bureau of Standards for the U.S. Army Signal Corps
Generation1
Release dateApril 1954; 70 years ago (1954-04)
CPU900 vacuum tubes and 24,500 crystal diodes
Memory512 words of 45 bits each (plus 1 parity bit) (mercury delay-line memory)
Mass20 short tons (18 t)
PredecessorSEAC
Cross-sectional diagram of a DYSEAC van

DYSEAC was the second Standards Electronic Automatic Computer. (See SEAC.)

DYSEAC was a first-generation computer built by the National Bureau of Standards for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. It was housed in a truck, making it one of the first movable computers (perhaps the first). It went into operation in April 1954.[1]

DYSEAC used 900 vacuum tubes and 24,500 crystal diodes. It had a memory of 512 words of 45 bits each (plus 1 parity bit), using mercury delay-line memory. Memory access time was 48–384 microseconds. The addition time was 48 microseconds, and the multiplication/division time was 2112 microseconds. These times are excluding the memory-access time, which added up to approximately 1500 microseconds to those times.

DYSEAC weighed about 20 short tons (18 t).[2]

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