The first calculations were done on April 1, 1954 and BESK handled weather data for Carl-Gustaf Rossby and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, statistics for the telecommunications service provider Televerket, wing profiles for the attack aircraft Saab Lansen, and road profiles for the road authority Vägverket.
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Reportedly this was an intentional and unnoticed pun after officials denied usage of the name CONIAC (Conny Palm Integrator And Calculator, compare Cognac and ENIAC) for the predecessor BARK.
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Bäsk is also the name of a traditional bitters made from distilled alcohol seasoned with the herb Artemisia absinthium L.
He discovered the phenomenon while designing a ferromagnetic surface layer to the magnetic drum memory for the BESK computer.
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