SILLIAC

[2] In July 1954, Standard Telephones and Cables was contracted to build the computer, with testing and installation performed by technicians within the School of Physics.

SILLIAC's first scientific computation was carried out by PhD student Bob May (later Robert May, Baron May of Oxford) in June 1956,[2] after self tests had been completed successfully.

Another PhD student user in that month was John C. Butcher (later Professor of Mathematics at the University of Auckland), [6].

SILLIAC has now been broken up into pieces with parts of it placed on display in the Chau Chak Wing Museum,[2] which opened in November 2020.

[12] When it had been broken up, parts had originally been given to a range of people, including 14 schoolchildren who had requested the University for mementoes.

[13] In March 2008, the Australian Computer Museum Society was seeking alternative storage, or risked its collection, including important components of SILLIAC, being scrapped.