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Ferranti Mercury
The Mercury was an early 1950s commercial computer built by Ferranti. It was a development of the famous Manchester Mark I, adding a floating point unit for improved performance, and increased reliability by replacing the Williams tube memory with core memory and using more solid state components.
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