Clementina
Clementine, a computer of the mercury series was the first computer in Argentina. It was imported in 1960 with the help of Manuel Sadosky, who get borrow a credit to Bernardo Houssay of 300.000 dollar to buy a computer and was called the father of the Argentinian computing because he created the institute of calculus.
Clementine started to work in 1961 on the UBA
(University of Buenos Aires) and was used for scientific and technological
projects. Only had 5 Kb of ram and its size was 18 meters of long. With its
small size of processing, its boot delay was as 2 hours, did not have a screen
or a keyboard. The only form to get data was with punched paper tapes.
As Clementine needs a special system of refrigeration,
was carried to a separate building. In this place was used day and night by 100
persons.
At 1971, Clementine pass to stay out of service
because no had extra parts for repair.
In this moment, some parts are in La Plata and some
parts are in the UBA.
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