Computer Music Journal, 28:1, pp. 10–25, Spring 2004 q 2004 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Australian-built ‘‘automatic computer’’ initially known as the CSIR Mk1, and later known as CSIRAC, was one of the world’s earliest storedprogram electronic digital computers (Williams 1997). (See Figure 1.) Coincidentally, it may also have been the Ž rst computer to play music, even though la...

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