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| Also known as | Digital Electronic Universal Computing Engine |
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| Manufacturer | English Electric |
| Release date | 1955 |
| Discontinued | 1964 |
| Units shipped | 33 |
| CPU | thermionic valve-based |
| Memory | mercury delay lines 384 32-bit words (Mark I and Mark II) 608 32-bit words (Mark IIA) |
| Storage | 8192-word magnetic drum |
| Display | 2 × CRTs |
| Predecessor | Pilot 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.
- ^ 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.