SEAC

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SEAC Acronym for Standards Eastern Automatic Computer. The first stored-program electronic digital computer to become operational in the USA, in 1950. (Compare Manchester Mark I, EDSAC, EDVAC.) It was one of two different pioneer machines developed by the National Bureau of Standards: SEAC was installed in Washington, and the other, called SWAC (Standards Western Automatic Computer), in Los Angeles. Like EDSAC and EDVAC, SEAC used mercury delay line memory.

A Dictionary of Computing JOHN DAINTITH

SEAC

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SEAC (ˈsiːæk) School Examination and Assessment Council
• South-East Asia Command
• Standard Eastern Automatic Computer

The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH