--- title: "Where was the first computer installed in india?" description: "Where was the first computer installed in india?" author: "simron shukla" published: 2018-02-27 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/35039/where-was-the-first-computer-installed-in-india category: "general knowledge" tags: ["general knowledge"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # Where was the first computer installed in india? ## Answers ### Answer by Harshal Vispute The **Tata Institute of Fundamental Research** in **[Mumbai](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/38720/which-film-was-named-best-film-at-the-61st-britannia-filmfare-awards-2016-held-in-mumbai)** produced the **first computer**, the **TIFRAC (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research [Automatic](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/2449/what-is-automatic-reference-counting-arc) [Calculator](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/38/calculator-in-asp-dot-net-using-javascript))**. In the **1950s**, a **TIFR Pilot Machine was built ([operational](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/94144/how-many-days-was-chandrayaan-1-operational) in 1956)**. The final machine was formally commissioned (and christened **TIFRAC** by **[Jawaharlal Nehru](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40271/who-was-the-acting-prime-minister-of-india-twice-on-the-death-of-jawaharlal-nehru-and-lal-bahadur-shastri)**) in **1960** after [development](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/84296/dirt-and-development-in-india) began in **1955.** Until **1965**, the entire machine was in use. There were **2,700 vacuum tubes, 1,700 germanium diodes, and 12,500 resistors in TIFRAC**. It had ferrite core memory with **2,048 40-bit words**. This computer was one of the first to use **ferrite core memory**. TIFRAC's main vacuum tube [assembly](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/83032/2022-uttar-pradesh-legislative-assembly-election) was housed in a large steel rack measuring **18 feet x 2.5 feet x 8 feet.** It was made up of **4 foot × 2.5 foot x 8-foot [components](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/74096/understanding-the-role-of-some-integral-ac-components)**. The circuits were accessible through steel doors on both sides of each module. The development of a cathode ray tube display system as an auxiliary output to the computer for analog and digital display of **graphs** and **alpha-numeric symbols.**\ The input/output control device of the computer was a manual console. TIFRAC's [software](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/86937/tech-layoffs-and-its-impacts-to-software-developers) was written in a [succession](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/107655/what-are-the-causes-of-the-war-of-spanish-succession) o**f 0s and 1s commands.** The **first digital computer** in India was a **British-built HEC 2M computer**, which was imported and installed in the **Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata in 1955**. Prior to that, in **1953**, this institute produced a modest analog computer, which is considered to be **India's first computer.**\ --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/35039/where-was-the-first-computer-installed-in-india Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.