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This is the first in a series of pictures of SMIL, one of the first Swedish
computers, built at Lund University in the mid-fifties.
The original SMIL consisted of about 2000 vacuum tubes, had a forty-bit
word length and a 2048-word drum memory (later expanded to 4096 words
of ferrite core memory). SMIL was the main university computer for
more than 15 years and wasn't decommissioned until 1972 (when it was
replaced by a Univac 1108).
These pictures show SMIL as it looked in 1956. An index:
SMIL-01.jpg : SMIL's memory drum (the cylindrical object at the lower
left) with controlling electronics
SMIL-02.jpg : The back side of SMIL during trouble-shooting, complete
with a pipe-smoking operator.
SMIL-03.jpg : The operator's console, with control panel, paper tape
reader and printer
SMIL-04.jpg : The front side of SMIL