Norway's first commercial computer, an #IBM650 dubbed #EMMA (Elektronisk MateMAtikk-regnemaskin), came to #Bergen in 1958, and was delivered to the Geophysical Institute at #UiB.

Input to EMMA was through punch cards to a memory of 2000 words on a rotating magnetic drum, and it could do 1000 additions or 60 multiplications per second. EMMA was famously used to calculate taxes for the Norwegian population from 1958 to 1963, as well as scientific calculations for the university.

Photo by Atelier KK, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-kk-n-435-122.html
#Norway #Norge #NorskPix #Historical #BlackAndWhitePhotography #ComputerHistory

México inició su incursión en el uso de las computadoras digitales el 8 de junio de 1958, cuando la (UNAM) adquirió una computadora IBM-650; siendo la primera computadora electrónica en operar en Latinoamérica
#retrocomputingmx #IBM650 #informaticaenmexico
#MExico

The IBM 650: An appreciation from the field (1986) [pdf] — https://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/KnuthIBM650Appreciation.pdf
#HackerNews #IBM650 #Appreciation #ComputerHistory #TechThrowback #PDF

Expressen rapporterar om Stockholms spårvägars inköp av ”en matematikmaskin, elektronhjärna eller elektronisk databehandlingsmaskin (kärt barn har många namn)”, 6 oktober 1958. ”En sådan här apparat – utom flickan – skeppas över Atlanten till Stockholms spårvägar i vår” #computerhistory #ibm650