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Pioneering Edsac computer to be built at Bletchley Park

Like all early computers Edsac filled the room in which it was located.

 

The first recognisably modern computer is to be rebuilt at the UK's former code-cracking centre Bletchley Park.

The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (Edsac) was a room-sized behemoth built at Cambridge university that first ran in 1949.

Creation of the replica has been commissioned by the UK's Computer Conservation Society (CCS).

 

Read the full BBC article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12181153