by BBC
“We got the calculations side down to about one minute. From their point of view it was fantastic.” As well as being useful, the Pilot ACE was highly profitable. For the first two or three years of their mass-production, each machine was, Mr Vickers recalls, making upwards of £30 per hour. In an era when highly respected scientists predicted that the UK could solve its computing needs with just three machines in the entire country, the Pilot ACE showed real potential of powerful computing.
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