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TIFRAC, India’s First Computer – A Retrospective
By P.V.S.Rao
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
"TIFRAC (Tata Institute of Funda- mental Research Automatic Calculator) – so was it named by Jawaharlal Nehru when it was formally commissioned in 1960 – was a truly a unique computer.
It will not be easy for the average reader to fully comprehend what one means by designing, developing and making a computer work during the mid fifties of the last century, the time TIFRAC was built. To most people today, the word computer signifies either a laptop or a desktop machine. These have a keyboard, a monitor, a mouse, a CD ROM, and so forth. Some readers may know that there is a motherboard inside and that the main component there is a processor chip."
Read more :
http://www.ias.ac.in/resonance/May2008/p420-429.pdf
Read more : http://www.ias.ac.in/resonance/May2008/p420-429.pdf
2010: 50 years of India's first digital computer With 2010 marking 50 years of India's first digital computer, it would be hard to imagine a computer 30 feet in length but with a memory of just one kilobyte. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/52627/2010-50-years-indias-first.html
The First Computer Comes To India... By Subroto Bagchi Professor and head of the Electronics and Communications Unit of ISI, the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, Dr Dwijish Dutta Majumdar, smiled weakly as we shook hands. At 53 he was bespectacled, hair brushed back, slightly heavy in the middle which you notice only when he stands up. There were at least 40 kgs of paper on the table, much of which had strong bearing on fields as diverse as image processing to pattern recognition and artificial intelligence to multi valued logic of fuzzy mathematics. Read more : http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/50yrsIT/Trailblazers/2006/106123002.asp