[SIGCIS-Members] Were any early computers completed on schedule?

[Per Vingaard Klüver]

The first danish computer, the DASK, was finished before schedule. And with a few bucks to spare.

Regards
Per Vingaard Klüver

<thaigh at computer.org> writes:
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>For my ongoing project on ENIAC I’ve written a sentence SEAC, another early computer, that includes the words “….although finished well behind schedule, like all early computers…“.
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>It’s been suggested to me that several Colossus computers were in fact finished on schedule. Does anyone know if this is true?
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>Also, are there any other examples of early digital computers of the 1940s or earlier reaching reliable operation more or less on the schedule promised to the people funding them? Delays to ENIAC, EDVAC, the IAS computer, ACE, Univac, the Manchester Mark 1, the  Harvard Mark 1, and of course Babbage’s Difference Engine are well documented. 
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>I can always change ”all” to “most” but this is now making me curious.
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>Best wishes,
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>Tom
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