EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) was one of the very first computers ever created. It ran its first programs on May 6, 1949 calculating table of squares and a list of prime numbers. Martin Campbell-Kelly of the University of Warwick, England, created a neat software to simulate the EDSAC computer you can download and play with:
Link (Thanks Cary Groneveldt!) |
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