Imagine building a computer you'd never seen, with no plan for putting it together and only grainy black-and-white photos and decades-old memories to guide you. This was precisely the situation that ...

Researchers aim to rebuild computer, but first they need the parts. The EDSAC computer (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer) circa 1949. SSPL via Getty Images — -- A missing part to one ...

The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park has opened a new display featuring the reconstruction of EDSAC, one the world's most influential computers. The original EDSAC (Electronic ...

One of the first ‘modern' computers created by clever chaps at Cambridge University in the late 40s is to be re-built at Bletchley Park. The UK's Computer Conservation Society (CCS) has commissioned a ...

Edsac, the UK's first fully operational general-purpose computer, is to be recreated at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. The £250,000 project will be conducted in public, so ...

A piece of cybernetic history returned home as a long-lost component of the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the first practical general purpose computers, was returned to ...

The computer industry is careless of history. It may have utterly changed our lives through digitization, but in the process it has neglected its own records. The first true computers were an ...

A project to recreate a working replica of the original early British computer, the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), is set to start this week in front of visitors to the ...

When you write a program for your computer, whether it is a desktop machine, a microcontroller, or a supercomputer, the chances are that you use software tools to help you get the job done. High level ...

On May 6th, 1949 EDSAC (or Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) ran its first programs, calculating a table of squares and generating a list of prime numbers. The massive vacuum-tube-powered ...

The recovered Edsac part is thought to have been sold at auction in the 1950s An original part of one of the UK's pioneering computers has been found in the US. The part is a significant chunk of ...

An original part of one of the UK's pioneering computers has been found in the US. The part is a significant chunk of Edsac - a machine built at Cambridge in the late 1940s to serve scientists at the ...