SARA (SAABs räkneautomat, SAAB's calculating machine) was developed by
SAAB
Saab or SAAB may refer to:
Brands and enterprises
* Saab Group, a Swedish aerospace and defence company, formerly known as SAAB, and later as Saab AB
** Datasaab, a former computer company, started as spin off from Saab AB
* Saab Automobile, a fo ...
when the capacity of
BESK was insufficient for their needs. The project was started the fall of 1955 and became operational in 1956. SARA was built using the drawings of BESK that SAAB had bought for a symbolic sum and with the help of people who had worked with BESK, but didn't stay when
Matematikmaskinnämnden The Swedish Board for Computing Machinery ( sv, Matematikmaskinnämnden, MMN) was a Swedish government agency which built Sweden's first computers: BARK and BESK.
A governmental study into the need for computing machinery in Sweden had been condu ...
decided that there would be no second generation. SARA wasn't used much, but it became the start of
DataSAAB and the development of
CK37 and
D2.
IAS architecture computers
Science and technology in Sweden
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