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| | EDSAC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) was an early British computer (one of the first computers to be created). | | | EDSAC was the world's first practical stored program electronic computer, although not the first stored program computer (that honor goes to the Small-Scale Experimental Machine). | | | In the mid-60s, a successor to the EDSAC 2 was planned, but the move was instead made to the Titan, a prototype Atlas 2—the latter having been developed from the Atlas Computer of the University of Manchester, Ferranti, and Plessey. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDSAC
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| | David Wheeler |
| | He worked on the original EDSAC computer and wrote the first computer program ever to be stored in a computer's working memory. | | | As a member of the team working with Maurice Wilkes on Cambridge’s Edsac (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer), he was responsible for the system that provided instructions to the computer, and the innovations he made at the time still form the basis of modern computer programming. | | | Edsac was not the first computer to store and run a program, because Manchester University& “Baby” had been doing so since June 1948, but Wheeler’s work meant that Edsac could be made available to researchers outside the Mathematical Laboratory. |
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http://www.thocp.net/biographies/wheeler_david.htm
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| | Noughts and Crosses |
| | The EDSAC machine was the first true programable computer as we would understand it today. | | | The EDSAC simulator is a fascinating oportunity to experience the birth of computing and to try your hand at programming this early machine. | | | The computer was the EDSAC machine built at Cambridge University in 1949. |
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http://www.adit.co.uk/html/noughts_and_crosses.html
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| | Ivars Peterson's MathLand |
| | When the EDSAC made its computational debut at the Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory of Cambridge University in May 1949, it was the first stored-program computer to become operational. | | | Programmers were urged to scan their programs before submitting them, to write programs in a logical, easy-to-follow manner, and to use units of code selected from libraries of well-tested programs for performing certain operations. | | | The EDSAC staff did all it could to reduce the incidence of program errors that unnecessarily tied up the machine, wasting its precious time. |
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http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathland_7_8.html
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| | Lycos Search : EDSAC |
| | The EDSAC was the world's first stored-program computer to operate a regular... | | | This page lists the source code for the worlds first computer game and incidentally the worlds first computer based version of noughts and crosses (tic tac toe). | | | Janus: Papers relating to the development of the EDSAC, one of the... |
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http://search.lycos.co.uk/cgi-bin/pursuit?query=EDSAC&cat=loc&lyca=MI&...
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| | BBC News Sci/Tech Pioneers recall computer creation |
| | The first successful program was run on 6 May, 1949, computing a table of squares. | | | "There is a chassis from the Edsac 1 and the paper tape reader that was used with it, and a thing called a mercury delay line which was the sort of memory used on that computer." | | | First course in Computer Science at Cambridge started in 1953, using the EDSAC. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/317437.stm
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| | PONG-Story: A.S.Douglas' 1952 Noughts and Crosses game |
| | The first programs in the world were written on EDSAC, a unique computer built in 1949 at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. | | | Early computers like EDSAC occupied a huge place, mainly because they used vaccuum tubes (the semi-conductors predecessors) which took much more place than a microprocessor and required a lot of power. | | | One computed a table of square roots, another computer a table of prime numbers. |
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http://www.pong-story.com/1952.htm
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| | Computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Valve-driven computer designs were in use throughout the 1950s, but were eventually replaced with transistor-based computers, which were smaller, faster, cheaper, and much more reliable, thus allowing them to be commercially produced, in the 1960s. | | | A number of projects to develop computers based on the stored program architecture commenced in the late 1940s; the first of these to be up and running was the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, but the EDSAC was perhaps the first practical version. | | | The team who developed ENIAC, recognizing its flaws, came up with a far more flexible and elegant design, which has become known as the stored program architecture, which is the basis from which virtually all modern computers were derived. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
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| | The machine that changed the world - Personal Computer World |
| | Their 'Baby' was working before Edsac but it was a short-lived pilot project; Wilkes had to build a computer that could be used in earnest. | | | This screenshot from an Edsac emulator shows what is probably the first computer game, It dates from less than three years after Edsac went live and shows how fast computing moved even then. | | | The press got hold of the Edsac story and had a field day, with much talk of a 'mechanical brain' - which was curious, considering that mechanical computers were precisely what electronic ones were superseding. |
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http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/features/2045826/machine-changed-world
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| | History of Computers [encyclopedia] |
| | The EDSAC design was used as the basis of the first business computer system, the Lyons Electronic Office. | | | The first digital computer (EDSAC) to be able to be offered as a service to users was developed at Cambridge University, UK, and ran in the spring of 1949. | | | In Cambridge, WILKES built the EDSAC computer in 1949, which was developed in 1951 via a collaboration with the J Lyons Company into the first machine designed exclusively for business use, LEO (Lyons Electronic Office). |
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http://kosmoi.com/Computer/History
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| | The Encyclopedia of Computer Languages |
| | The EDSAC at the University of Manchester was probably the first stored program Electronic Computer in operation (1949). | | | The EDSAC computer was completed at Cambridge University, England, in May 1949. | | | This article describes the development of the programming system between the first operation of the machine in May 1949 and the end of that year. |
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http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/showlanguage.prx?exp=2675
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| | Reporter 17/2/99: Computer Laboratory: EDSAC 99 |
| | In EDSAC 99 the Computer Laboratory is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of this historic event, with a two-day programme including talks, historic exhibits, displays on the Computing Service, demonstrations of current research, and a dinner. | | | On 6 May 1949 the EDSAC, the first full-scale electronic, stored program, digital computer, came into operation in Cambridge, built by Maurice Wilkes and his team. | | | To register and for further information contact EDSAC 99 at the Computer Laboratory (e-mail edsac99@cl.cam.ac.uk, fax 01223 334678, tel. |
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http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/1998-9/weekly/5765/16.html
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| | Edsac Links |
| | Computing with the EDSAC (Part 1) and Computing with the EDSAC (Part 2) | | | LEO, the commercial version of EDSAC, was probably the world's first business computer. | | | Visit computer historian Jan Lee's web site for a biography of Maurice V. |
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http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/Links.html
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| | RFE: EDSAC Simulator |
| | EDSAC was the first stored-memory computer (the more famous ENIAC had to be physically programmed by re-plugging wires). | | | At this site, you can download a simulator of this ancestor of the computers we use today. | | | EDSAC, at Cambridge University, ran its first program on May 6, 1949. |
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http://econwpa.wustl.edu/other_www/econfaq/Neat/EDSACSimulator.html
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| | A Chronology of Digital Computing Machines (to 1952) |
| | Maurice Wilkes (1913-) and his team at Cambridge University complete the "EDSAC" ("Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer"), which is closely based on the EDVAC design report from von Neumann's group -- Wilkes had attended the 1946 Moore School course. | | | The Moore School gives a course on "Theory and Techniques for Design of Electronic Computers"; lectures are given by Eckert, Mauchly, Stibitz, von Neumann, and Aiken among others. | | | The course leads to several projects being started, among them the EDSAC. |
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http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/time/msb-chronology-of-dcm.html
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| | 99 Bottles of Beer Language Assembler (EDSAC) |
| | As you may well know, the EDSAC was the world's first stored-program computer. | | | Correspondingly, its assembly language is one of the most basic and obscure programming languages known to man, and is unbelievably difficult to program in. | | | Please use the form to submit new examples! |
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http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-assembler-(edsac)-44.html
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| | 1949 EDSAC Maurice Wilkes |
| | Built EDSAC - Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator. | | | First working full scale stored program computer - Maurice V. Wilkes - Cambridge University. |
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http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~alan/COMS11301/cm1w1l1/tsld021.htm
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| | EDSAC |
| | Web Directory Home / Computers / Emulators / EDSAC |
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http://www.hotvsnot.com/Computers/Emulators/Edsac
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| | emulation.net |
| | The Edsac was one of the first programmable computers, built in 1949. | | | Edsac Simulator reproduces the array of glowing lights and vacuum tubes that was the original programmable computer. | | | Some creative minds have come together in this uniquely strange project to bring Edsac to the Macintosh. |
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http://www.komkon.org/EMUL8/Macintosh/edsac
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| | EDSAC |
| | Maurice V. Wilkes and his team at the university of Cambridge constructed the EDSAC: Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer. | | | The program supported relocatable code when the program was loaded. | | | The design was based on that of von Neumann. |
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http://www.thocp.net/hardware/edsac.htm
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| | EDSAC |
| | "EDSAC 99," http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/UoCCL/misc/EDSAC99/ (The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, accessed 2004 Sep 25). | | | See EDSAC 99 (1), a report on the 50th anniversary celebration of the EDSAC. |
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http://www.dgatx.com/computing/machines/EDSAC/hs.html
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| | EDSAC Definition |
| | It was one of the first computers to perform calculations in binary. | | | Its memory was 512 36-bit words of liquid mercury delay lines, and its input and output were provided by paper tape. | | | The EDSAC could do about 700 additions per second and 200 multiplications per second. |
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http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=EDSAC&i=42393,00.asp
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| | EDSAC 99 |
| | The Computer Laboratory celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the EDSAC 1 computer in April 1999 with a two day meeting, including talks about EDSAC 1 and subsequent work in the Laboratory, historic exhibits and demonstrations of current research, together with a reception and dinner. | | | The EDSAC 99 meeting gratefully acknowledges generous sponsorship from: ARM Limited, ATandT Laboratories Cambridge, the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, Marks and Spencer plc, and Microsoft Research Limited. | | | Some reminiscences of the EDSAC and early days in the Laboratory |
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http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/UoCCL/misc/EDSAC99
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| | EDSAC - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "EDSAC" is defined. | | | We found 3 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word EDSAC: | | | EDSAC : BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms [home, info] |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=EDSAC&ls=a
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