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<p>The <b>Hollerith Electronic Computer</b> (<b>HEC</b>) was produced by the <a href="page.php?w=British_Tabulating_Machine_Company">British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM)</a> and was based on a design by Professor <a href="page.php?w=Andrew_Donald_Booth">Andrew Booth</a> of <a href="page.php?w=Birkbeck%2C_University_of_London">Birkbeck College</a>, London. It was Britain's first mass-produced business computer. The prototype first worked at the end of 1951.</p>

<p><big>Origins</big></p>
<p>In 1950 <a href="page.php?w=John_R._Womersley">John Womersley</a>,</p><p>
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