Fast Universal Digital Computer M-2

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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^[specify] Soviet computers, some of them developed at other research institutes.

References

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

Malinovsky, Boris Nikolaevich (2010). "Pioneers Of Soviet Computing". archive.org. Retrieved 2018-05-23.

External links

"ЭВМ М-2" [M-2 computer]. www.computer-museum.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2018-05-23. Google translation

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[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.

[FOOTNOTEMalinovsky201071–72-3] Malinovsky 2010, pp. 71–72.

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