Fast Universal Digital Computer M-2

The M-2 (Russian: М-2)[1] was a computer developed at the Laboratory of Electrical Systems in the Institute of Energy of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The successor to the M-1, it was developed in 1952 by a team of engineers led by I.S. Brook (or Bruk).[2] The computer was developed and assembled in the period between April and December 1952. In 1953 M-2 became fully operational and was used for solving applied problems on round-the-clock basis,[3] mostly having to do with nuclear fission and rocket design.

M-2 was the basis for several other Soviet computers, some of them developed at other research institutes.

References

  1. This letter "M" is in Russian alphabet, have different Unicode code than in English alphabet (affects search).
  2. "The Fast Universal Digital Computer M-2. Russian Virtual Computer Museum. English version. Articles". Computer-museum.ru. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
  3. Malinovsky 2010, pp. 71–72.


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