DEMONSTRATION FLIGHT
A British United Airways Carvair aircraft which has brought a computer to New Zealand from London will make a demonstration flight to Christchurch on Friday with a load of five motor-cars.
The Carvair is a converted DC4 aircraft. It has had the whole front section removed and replaced with facilities for loading cargo through the nose. It can carry five medium-sized cars or six small cars and 23 passengers. While in New Zealand, the aircraft is being demonstrated by Straits Air Freights Express, Ltd., in which British United Airways has a majority shareholding. The computer which it brought from London is to be installed in Shell House, Wellington. Worth £90,000, it is the most advanced computer in New Zealand. It weighs 11,0001 b, and arrived in 14 crates.
The equipment comprises a central processor with 8192
words of core store, a line printer which prints at 600 lines a minute, a card reader which reads cards at the rate a 900 a minute, a paper tape
reader operating at 1000 characters a second, and four magnetic tape units which read and write at the rate of 20,000 characters a second.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30897, 2 November 1965, Page 16
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