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DEUCE
Also known asDigital Electronic Universal Computing Engine
ManufacturerEnglish Electric
Release date1955 (1955)
Discontinued1964 (1964)
Units shipped33
CPUthermionic valve-based
Memorymercury delay lines
384 32-bit words (Mark I and Mark II)
608 32-bit words (Mark IIA)
Storage8192-word magnetic drum
Display2 × CRTs
PredecessorPilot ACE

The DEUCE (Digital Electronic Universal Computing Engine) was one of the earliest British commercially available computers, built by English Electric from 1955.[1] It was the production version of the Pilot ACE, itself a cut-down version of Alan Turing's ACE.

  1. ^ Copeland, B. Jack (24 May 2012). Alan Turing's Electronic Brain: The Struggle to Build the ACE, the World's Fastest Computer. OUP Oxford. pp. 4, 164, 327. ISBN 9780199609154.

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