Title: Melbourne (AU) has an awesome museum called Scienceworks that currently has CSIRAC on display, so I went to check it out. The museum is primarily aimed at school kids, but honestly, with or without kids it&#x27;s a really great place to go check out.<p>Website about CSIRAC with lots of good info: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;museumsvictoria.com.au&#x2F;csirac&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;museumsvictoria.com.au&#x2F;csirac&#x2F;</a><p>It was the fourth computer ever built, and is the only first generation computer still intact. It was designed and built in Australia in 1949.<p>One bit I found especially interesting:<p>&gt; For a long time, it was believed that computer music was pioneered by Max Matthews in 1957, at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the United States.<p>&gt; However in mid-2004 composer and sonologist Paul Doornbusch proved that the first computer to play music was CSIRAC<p>&gt; The computer’s first public performances, of the popular tune Colonel Bogey, took place on 7-9 August 1951, at the inaugural Conference of Automatic Computing Machines in Sydney.<p>Edit: I added the photos to the comments as they don&#x27;t link if I add them here.
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