The Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC) was produced by the British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM) and was based on a design by Professor Andrew Booth of Birkbeck College, London. [1] It was Britain's first mass-produced business computer.

Prof. Mahalanobis was one of the first persons in India to recognize the importance of computer technology.A small electronic digital computer called HEC-2M (Hollerith Electronic Digital Computer-2M) produced by the British Tabulating Machines Works, Letchworth was ordered in …

A slightly modified version of the HEC 2 was then marketed as HEC2M and 8 were sold. The HEC2M was succeeded by the HEC4. Around 100 HEC4s were sold in the late 1950s.

Apr 4, 2016 · More than 60 years after it was first revealed to the public, Britain’s first mass-produced business computer, the Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC), is now on display at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) on Bletchley Park.

Ten feet in length, seven in breadth and six in height, the HEC-2M could perform 200 additions or five multiplications per second, writes Nikhil Menon. Photo credit: Central Library, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

A British-built HEC 2M computer, happened to be the first digital computer in India, which was imported and installed in Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, during 1955. Prior to that, this institute had developed a small analog computer in 1953, which is …

Apr 3, 2016 · BTM then decided to focus development on an affordable machine for businesses rather than scientists. The result was the HEC-2M, which later became the HEC-4 and sold over 100 units by 1962. In...

In 1956 Mahalanobis arranged for the installation of a British made digital computer, HEC-M, Hollerith – Electronic Digital Computer.

Dec 29, 2006 · HEC-2M-Once Premiers and Heads of States used to come and see it. Today it is resting desolately it heaps of allied scrap—like one more skeleton in a technological graveyard.

Discover the story of HEC-2M, India's first computer, marking the birth of computing in India! Learn about the history and significance of this revolutionary...