When you write a program for your computer, whether it is a desktop machine, a microcontroller, or a supercomputer, the chances are that you use software tools to help you get the job done. High level ...

The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park has opened a new display featuring the reconstruction of EDSAC, one the world's most influential computers. The original EDSAC (Electronic ...

Joyce Wheeler was one of a select group of scientists who used Edsac in their research Everyone remembers the first computer they ever used. And Joyce Wheeler is no exception. But in her case the ...

What was it like to program an early digital computer? [Woven Memories] wanted to know and wants you to know, too. [Maurice Wilkes] and his team wrote a book about their EDSAC and the 18 instructions ...

Imagine building a computer you'd never seen, with no plan for putting it together and only grainy black-and-white photos and decades-old memories to guide you. This was precisely the situation that ...

On May 6th, 1949 EDSAC (or Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) ran its first programs, calculating a table of squares and generating a list of prime numbers. The massive vacuum-tube-powered ...

A piece of cybernetic history returned home as a long-lost component of the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the first practical general purpose computers, was returned to ...

*These re-created historical computers have been known to bring in a healthy flow of gawking tourist dollars. With the revived Commodore 64, we're even seeing a consumer version of this phenomenon.

The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is celebrating today following the discovery of some of the earliest diagrams of a computer, drawn 60 years ago in an effort to document the world's first ...

The computer industry is careless of history. It may have utterly changed our lives through digitization, but in the process it has neglected its own records. The first true computers were an ...

In 1950, fifty-one people attended the Summer School on Programme Design for Automatic Digital Computing Machines at Cambridge University. Over the previous decade, engineering and mathematical ...