The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, or EDSAC, marked the birth of everyday computing and its role has been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maurice Wilkes (left) and Bill Renwick, with the Edsac computer at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge [Cavendish Laboratory] A ...

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 machine created in 1949 was the forerunner of most of today's general-purpose computers.

Maurice Wilkes (left) and Bill Renwick, with the Edsac computer at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge A blue plaque has been unveiled marking the creation of a computer in 1949 which set the ...