EDSAC
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Age
Friday May 6, 1949
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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Finally shut down in 1958, having been superseded by EDSAC 2, which remained in use until 1965.
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- 21 days from now, November 4, 2024, EDSAC celebrate 76th half birthday
- 66 days from now, December 20, 2024, EDSAC celebrate 314th Mercury age
- 82 days from now, January 5, 2025, EDSAC celebrate 123rd Venus age
- 142 days from now, March 6, 2025, EDSAC celebrate exactly 910 months
- 154 days from now, March 18, 2025, EDSAC celebrate 315th Mercury age
- 203 days from now, May 6, 2025, EDSAC celebrate 76th birthday
- 221 days from now, May 24, 2025, EDSAC celebrate exactly 2,400,000,000 seconds
221 days from now, May 24, 2025, EDSAC celebrate exactly 40,000,000 minutes - 242 days from now, June 14, 2025, EDSAC celebrate 316th Mercury age
- 306 days from now, August 17, 2025, EDSAC celebrate 124th Venus age
- 330 days from now, September 10, 2025, EDSAC celebrate 317th Mercury age
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