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 ...

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 ...

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We often think that not enough people are building things with FPGAs. We also love the retrotechtacular posts on old computer hardware. So it was hard to pass up [karlwoodward’s] post about the Chip ...