BARK (computer)

BARK was built using standard telephone relays, implementing a 32-bit binary machine.

BARK was developed by Matematikmaskinnämnden (Swedish Board for Computing Machinery) a few years before BESK.

The machine was built with 8,000 standard telephone relays, 80 km of cable and with 175,000 soldering points.

[1][2][3] It was completed in February 1950[4][5] at a cost of 400,000 Swedish kronor (less than $100,000),[6] became operational on April 28, 1950, and was taken offline on September 22, 1954.

The engineers on the team led by Conny Palm were Harry Freese, Gösta Neovius, Olle Karlqvist, Carl-Erik Fröberg, G. Kellberg, Björn Lind, Arne Lindberger, P. Petersson and Madeline Wallmark.