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Title: DASK Authors: Venue: Wikipedia Year: unknown Canonical: wiki:dask URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DASK Collector: wikipedia OA: true ABSTRACT The DASK was the first computer in Denmark. It was commissioned in 1955, designed and constructed by Regnecentralen, and began operation in September 1957. DASK is an acronym for Dansk Aritmetisk Sekvens Kalkulator or Danish Arithmetic Sequence Calculator. Regnecentralen almost did not allow the name, as the word dask means "slap" in Danish. In the end, however, it was named so as it fit the pattern of the name BESK, the Swedish computer which provided the initial architecture for DASK.