While the modern computing era has ordinarily been attributed to the UK and USA, Australia housed its own computer scene, with one of its most notable creations being SILLIAC.
SILLIAC was created for the University of Sydney in the 1950s, and, as its name implied, was a lesser version of the ILLIAC computer, being made for academic, rather than industrial, use.
While computers of the era were known for taking up entire rooms, SILLIAC filled three, being split between cabinets, a power supply and air conditioning.
It was eventually disbanded in 1968, but parts of the machine remain on display at the University and the Powerhouse Museum.
