EDSAC

Picture of EDSAC, Early British computer.
Started on
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Finally shut down in 1958, having been superseded by EDSAC 2, which remained in use until 1965.

Find more information about EDSAC on Wikipedia

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Mercury
314.03 years
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122.94 years
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40.21 years
Jupiter
6.37 years
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2.57 years
 
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