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    The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) was an early British computer. Inspired by John von Neumann's seminal First Draft of a Report...
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  • University of Cambridge. The program was written for the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC). EDSAC was one of the first stored-program computers...
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    computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored-program computers...
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    construction of a new generation of electronic computing machines, including Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) at Cambridge University...
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    of computer hardware List of vacuum-tube computers Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator Bashe, Charles J.; Buchholz, Werner; Hawkins, George...
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    computer (operational in 1958), the successor to the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC). It was the first computer to have a microprogrammed...
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    the Institute for Advanced Study. In late 1948, the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) had an assembler (named "initial orders") integrated...
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  • 1949. The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) ran its first program on May 6, 1949. The Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer...
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    The Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was a British early electronic serial stored-program computer design by Alan Turing. Turing completed the ambitious...
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    2018-06-21. Wilkes, W. V.; Renwick, W. (1950). "The EDSAC (Electronic delay storage automatic calculator)". Math. Comp. 4 (30): 61–65. doi:10.1090/s0025-5718-1950-0037589-7...
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    report inspired the construction of the E.D.S.A.C. (electronic delay-storage automatic calculator) in Cambridge (see p. 130). In 1947, Burks, Goldstine...
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  • response EDSAC—Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator EDVAC—Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer EEPROM—Electronically Erasable Programmable...
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    October 1946, work began under Maurice Wilkes on EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator), which subsequently became the world's first fully...
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    An electronic calculator is typically a portable electronic device used to perform calculations, ranging from basic arithmetic to complex mathematics....
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    eventually, will run and demonstrate it. The original EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) was constructed by the Cambridge University Mathematical...
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  • 1, which ran its first program in early April 1949. Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, EDSAC, which ran its first programs on 6 May 1949,...
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    financed the University of Cambridge's Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) which was the second electronic digital stored-program computer...
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    In 1950, Maurice Wilkes and David Wheeler used the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator to solve a differential equation relating to gene frequencies...
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    manner. Historically, early computers used delay lines, Williams tubes, or rotating magnetic drums as primary storage. By 1954, those unreliable methods were...
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    p. 5 Wilkes, M. V.; Renwick, W. (1950), "The EDSAC (Electronic delay storage automatic calculator)", Mathematics of Computation, 4 (30): 61–65, doi:10...
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    Douglas Hartree, whom she assisted in programming the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) for atomic-structure calculations. She served...
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  • Neumann alone. (See Matthew effect and Stigler's law.) Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC), an early British computer inspired by First...
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  • to the second stored-program computer, the EDSAC or Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (the first being Manchester University's "Baby", which...
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    Wheeler's contributions to the field included work on the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) in the 1950s and the Burrows–Wheeler transform...
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  • video games spans a period of time between the invention of the first electronic games and today, covering many inventions and developments. Video gaming...
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    computer – Maurice Wilkes EDSAC 2 the successor to the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator or EDSAC. It was the first computer to have a microprogrammed...
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    can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation). Modern digital electronic computers can perform...
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  • Colossus both claim to be the world's first electronic computer. Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) ran its first programs on 6 May 1949...
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  • Early electronic computers, and early home computers, had relatively small amounts of working memory. For example, the 1949 Electronic Delay Storage Automatic...
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    technology now obsolete. Electronic data storage, which is used in modern computers, dates from World War II, when a form of delay-line memory was developed...
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