<ul><li>Australia's first computer, CSIR Mk1 (later renamed CSIRAC), was switched on on 14 November 1949.</li><li>Designed and built by Trevor Pearcey with help from Maston Beard and Geoff Hill, CSIRAC was the 4th stored-memory electronic computer in the world.</li><li>It became fully operational in 1951, could perform 1,000 operations per second, and stored about 2 kilobytes of data.</li><li>CSIRAC holds records as the first computer to play electronic music and do numerical weather forecasting, and it is the only surviving first-generation computer worldwide.</li></ul>

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