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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), developed at the University of Cambridge, is one of the world’s earliest general-purpose computers. Volunteers at the National Museum of ...

The first components for a working replica of EDSAC, a groundbreaking early computer, are being manufactured this week, the team behind the ambitous project has announced. The original EDSAC under ...

Like all early computers Edsac filled the room in which it was located. The first recognisably modern computer is to be rebuilt at the UK's former code-cracking centre Bletchley Park. The Electronic ...

Each of the 140 chassis that form Edsac takes upwards of 20 hours to build and test Think of a shed and objects like spades, forks and compost in a wooden hut at the end of the garden come to mind.

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 ...