EDSAC
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Age
Friday May 6, 1949
74
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11
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29
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Basic information
AKA
Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
Category
others
Country
United Kingdom
Description
Early British computer.
First stored-program computer in regular use.
Large-scale electronic calculating machine in which ultrasonic delay units are used for storage of orders and numbers.
Developed at Britain's Cambridge University. Designer and creator was Sir Maurice Wilkes.
Memory : 512 17-bit words, upgraded in 1952 to 1024 17-bit words.
Finally shut down in 1958, having been superseded by EDSAC 2, which remained in use until 1965.
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- 2 days from now, May 6, 2024, EDSAC celebrate 75th birthday
2 days from now, May 6, 2024, EDSAC celebrate exactly 900 months - 21 days from now, May 25, 2024, EDSAC celebrate 122nd Venus age
- 54 days from now, June 27, 2024, EDSAC celebrate 312nd Mercury age
- 86 days from now, July 29, 2024, EDSAC celebrate 40th Mars age
- 107 days from now, August 20, 2024, EDSAC celebrate exactly 660,000 hours
- 142 days from now, September 23, 2024, EDSAC celebrate 313rd Mercury age
- 185 days from now, November 4, 2024, EDSAC celebrate 76th half birthday
- 230 days from now, December 20, 2024, EDSAC celebrate 314th Mercury age
- 246 days from now, January 5, 2025, EDSAC celebrate 123rd Venus age
- 306 days from now, March 6, 2025, EDSAC celebrate exactly 910 months
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