EDSAC
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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Finally shut down in 1958, having been superseded by EDSAC 2, which remained in use until 1965.
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- 12 days from now, June 1, 2026, EDSAC celebrate 320th Mercury age
- 27 days from now, June 16, 2026, EDSAC celebrate 41st Mars age
- 100 days from now, August 28, 2026, EDSAC celebrate 321st Mercury age
- 169 days from now, November 4, 2026, EDSAC celebrate 78th half birthday
- 170 days from now, November 6, 2026, EDSAC celebrate exactly 930 months
- 174 days from now, November 10, 2026, EDSAC celebrate 126th Venus age
- 188 days from now, November 24, 2026, EDSAC celebrate 322nd Mercury age
- 195 days from now, December 1, 2026, EDSAC celebrate exactly 680,000 hours
- 276 days from now, February 20, 2027, EDSAC celebrate 323rd Mercury age
- 334 days from now, April 19, 2027, EDSAC celebrate exactly 41,000,000 minutes
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