A rare original part of EDSAC, one of the world’s first computers has resurfaced in the US. It was one of the first practical general purpose computers and was used by scientific researchers across ...

An original part of one of the UK's pioneering computers has been found in the US. The part is a significant chunk of Edsac - a machine built at Cambridge in the late 1940s to serve scientists at the ...

One of the first ‘modern' computers created by clever chaps at Cambridge University in the late 40s is to be re-built at Bletchley Park. The UK's Computer Conservation Society (CCS) has commissioned a ...

Researchers aim to rebuild computer, but first they need the parts. The EDSAC computer (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer) circa 1949. SSPL via Getty Images — -- A missing part to one ...

The project to restore the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (Edsac) began in 2011 and is expected to be complete by 2015. On Wednesday, 26 June, the first demo of the replica Edsac was ...

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 ...

Plans to rebuild the pioneering Edsac computer are a step closer to completion as parts that will form its metal chassis start to be manufactured. Edsac - Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator ...

Detailed circuit diagrams of the world's first general computer have come to light during a project to reconstruct the machine. The 19 large scale diagrams were discovered by a team from The National ...

Work is underway to reconstruct what could be regarded as the direct ancestor of the personal computer we know today—following the recent discovery of detailed circuit diagrams that were about to be ...

Think of a shed and objects like spades, forks and compost in a wooden hut at the end of the garden come to mind. However, in the UK, some very old hardware is being brought back to life in some of ...

Image caption, Many of the first computers were developed during wartime and women were intimately involved in their creation and operation. Here Dorothy Du Boisson and Elsie Booker operate Colossus ...