PERM () is a stored-program-controlled electronic
computer
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, built in Munich under the auspices of
Hans Piloty and Robert Sauer 1952–1956. Some jokingly called it ''Pilotys erstes RechenMonster'' ('Piloty's first calculating monster'). It weighed several tons.
The machine is now displayed in the
informatics
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(
computer science
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) exhibition of the
Deutsches Museum
The Deutsches Museum (''German Museum'', officially (English: ''German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology'')) in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of science museum, science and technology museum, technology, with a ...
München.
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Early computers
Computers designed in Germany
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