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I have to admit that I've never seen a Dask but I lived in the time-warp of Hungary so only 10 years later in 1964 I had the pleasure to study in detail and work with the nephew of Dask, the direct offspring of Besm on the list, the soviet made Ural 2 with exactly the same family traits: 40 bits of data, two 20 bit instructions per word. This was a fantastically beautiful machine with the soft and warm glow of the thousands of vacuum tubes and the hundreds of flickering orange gas-filled indicator lights.