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October 22, 2014

EDSAC commissioning begins

October 22, 2014/ Jacqui Garrad
EDSAC commissioning begins

EDSAC commissioning began this week by connecting some of the independently-built "sub-systems". The ongoing project can be seen by visitors and some great online videos tell the story to date.

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October 22, 2014/ Jacqui Garrad/
July 24, 2014

Video tour of EDSAC

July 24, 2014/ Jacqui Garrad
Video tour of EDSAC

Andrew Herbert, leader of the EDSAC Project, gives a video tour of EDSAC as commissioning of the reconstruction at TNMOC begins.

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July 24, 2014/ Jacqui Garrad/
July 21, 2014

EDSAC diagrams rediscovered - video

July 21, 2014/ Jacqui Garrad
EDSAC diagrams rediscovered - video

Some of the earliest diagrams of a computer have been rediscovered more than sixty years after they were drawn and are giving the EDSAC team something to think about.

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July 21, 2014/ Jacqui Garrad/
April 22, 2014

Two EDSAC volunteers and their work

April 22, 2014/ Jacqui Garrad
Two EDSAC volunteers and their work

EDSAC volunteers John Sanderson and Nigel Bennee talk on video about their expert work on the reconstruction of the 1940's EDSAC computer.

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April 22, 2014/ Jacqui Garrad/
February 28, 2014

EDSAC electronics racks in place

February 28, 2014/ Jacqui Garrad
EDSAC electronics racks in place

The EDSAC Project has made great progress over the last two weeks of February and the overall look of the EDSAC reconstruction is beginning to appear.

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February 28, 2014/ Jacqui Garrad/
February 17, 2014

EDSAC Gallery takes shape

February 17, 2014/ Jacqui Garrad
EDSAC Gallery takes shape

The EDSAC project is now really starting to show results: the first racks of electronics are about to be installed and visitors will soon be able to see the reconstruction in action.

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February 17, 2014/ Jacqui Garrad/
November 19, 2013

EDSAC reconstruction on target

November 19, 2013/ Jacqui Garrad
EDSAC reconstruction on target

On target at almost one-third of the way through, the EDSAC reconstruction project volunteers meet at the University of Cambridge, where the original EDSAC was built, to discuss progress.

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November 19, 2013/ Jacqui Garrad/
September 13, 2013

What store for EDSAC?

September 13, 2013/ Jacqui Garrad
What store for EDSAC?

Peter Linington talks on video about the original EDSAC mercury delay line store and the substitute nickel delay line store he has prototyped for the EDSAC reconstruction.

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September 13, 2013/ Jacqui Garrad/
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The National Museum of Computing was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee on 2005, number 05407952. The company was granted charitable status in England and Wales in 2005, charity number 1109874.