A pre-production HEC 2 was exhibited at the Business Efficiency Exhibition at Olympia, London in June 1953 and in 1955, the first production machine called HEC 2M was delivered.

A British-built HEC 2M computer, happened to be the first digital computer in India, which was imported and installed in Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, during 1955. Prior to that, this institute had developed a small analog computer in 1953, which is …

Prof. Mahalanobis was one of the first persons in India to recognize the importance of computer technology.A small electronic digital computer called HEC-2M (Hollerith Electronic Digital Computer-2M) produced by the British Tabulating Machines Works, Letchworth was ordered in …

The HEC 2 was the HEC 1 with smarter metal casings and was built for the Business Efficiency Exhibition in 1953. A slightly modified version of the HEC 2 was then marketed as HEC2M and 8 were sold. The HEC2M was succeeded by the HEC4. Around 100 …

2022年4月21日 · Ten feet in length, seven in breadth and six in height, the HEC-2M could perform 200 additions or five multiplications per second, writes Nikhil Menon. Photo credit: Central Library, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. In December 1954, two Bengali engineers made their way from Calcutta to the garden city of Letchworth in England.

2016年4月4日 · More than 60 years after it was first revealed to the public, Britain’s first mass-produced business computer, the Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC), is now on display at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) on Bletchley Park.

In 1956 Mahalanobis arranged for the installation of a British made digital computer, HEC-M, Hollerith – Electronic Digital Computer

2025年1月2日 · The first-ever electronic computer in India - the Hollerith Electronic Computer Model 2M (HEC 2M) from the UK was installed for statistical use at ISI in 1949. Limited input-output capabilities of this and the next computer - the Russian URAL II installed at the ISI made them unsuitable for survey data processing.

2006年12月29日 · HEC-2M 'worked'. Scientific problems poured in from all parts of the country, including a lot of work from the Defense, mostly for trajectory analysis for artillery cannons. DDM remembers lovingly, "It most became the National Computational Center of India." In 1958, with a grant from the UNTAB (United Nations Technical

The Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC-2M), a small electronic digital computer produced by the British Tabulating Machines Works, Letchworth which had been ordered in 1954, was received in February 1956.