1 апр 1943 г. - Max Newman, Wynn-Williams and their team at the secret Government Code and Cypher School ('Station X'), Bletchley Park, Bletchley, England, completed the 'Heath Robinson'.
This was a specialized counting machine used for cipher-breaking, not a general-purpose calculator or computer, but a logic device using a combination of electronics and relay logic.
It read data optically at 2000 characters per second from 2 closed loops of paper tape, each typically about 1000 characters long.