モーリス・ウィルクス: 世界初の実用コンピュータEDSACを作った「英国コンピューティングの父」 <クロニカル書房 編集部> が、Kindleストアで販売開始されました。
モーリス・ウィルクス: 世界初の実用コンピュータEDSACを作った「英国コンピューティングの父」
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September 19, 2026 at 5:17 PM
モーリス・ウィルクス: 世界初の実用コンピュータEDSACを作った「英国コンピューティングの父」 <クロニカル書房 編集部> が、Kindleストアで販売開始されました。
Last but not least, a listener gave me a tour of the National Museum of Computing at Bletchly Park. The highlight was definitely the EDSAC recreation project.
September 14, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Last but not least, a listener gave me a tour of the National Museum of Computing at Bletchly Park. The highlight was definitely the EDSAC recreation project.
The EDSAC Film --CambridgeComputerLab
Film made in 1951, with a commentary by Prof. Wilkes added in 1976, showing the EDSAC computer in use.
Begins with Wilkes[1] in 1976; 1951 EDSAC[2] footage begins at 3:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjhRRj6WYcs
On the same topic:
Inside the Computer […]
Film made in 1951, with a commentary by Prof. Wilkes added in 1976, showing the EDSAC computer in use.
Begins with Wilkes[1] in 1976; 1951 EDSAC[2] footage begins at 3:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjhRRj6WYcs
On the same topic:
Inside the Computer […]
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September 13, 2026 at 7:03 PM
The EDSAC Film --CambridgeComputerLab
Film made in 1951, with a commentary by Prof. Wilkes added in 1976, showing the EDSAC computer in use.
Begins with Wilkes[1] in 1976; 1951 EDSAC[2] footage begins at 3:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjhRRj6WYcs
On the same topic:
Inside the Computer […]
Film made in 1951, with a commentary by Prof. Wilkes added in 1976, showing the EDSAC computer in use.
Begins with Wilkes[1] in 1976; 1951 EDSAC[2] footage begins at 3:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjhRRj6WYcs
On the same topic:
Inside the Computer […]
The EDSAC Film
Film made in 1951, with a commentary added in 1976, showing the EDSAC computer in use.
www.youtube.com
September 13, 2026 at 1:30 PM
youtu.be/DjhRRj6WYcs?... is an incredible introduction to things you may take for granted, including the job queue being a literal queue. Maurice Wilkes was still turning up to Computer Lab happy hours on Friday afternoons to have a beer well into his 90s. Fucking legend.
The EDSAC Film
YouTube video by CambridgeComputerLab
youtu.be
September 13, 2026 at 6:37 AM
youtu.be/DjhRRj6WYcs?... is an incredible introduction to things you may take for granted, including the job queue being a literal queue. Maurice Wilkes was still turning up to Computer Lab happy hours on Friday afternoons to have a beer well into his 90s. Fucking legend.
Hodge false would not surprise me.
BSD was a conjecture made with computer assistance, EDSAC-2 at Cambridge in the early 1960s.
I'll be interested to follow the first new conjectures proposed by AI, and unsolvable for decades with trillions of tokens.
BSD was a conjecture made with computer assistance, EDSAC-2 at Cambridge in the early 1960s.
I'll be interested to follow the first new conjectures proposed by AI, and unsolvable for decades with trillions of tokens.
September 10, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Hodge false would not surprise me.
BSD was a conjecture made with computer assistance, EDSAC-2 at Cambridge in the early 1960s.
I'll be interested to follow the first new conjectures proposed by AI, and unsolvable for decades with trillions of tokens.
BSD was a conjecture made with computer assistance, EDSAC-2 at Cambridge in the early 1960s.
I'll be interested to follow the first new conjectures proposed by AI, and unsolvable for decades with trillions of tokens.
From "THE PREPARATION OF PROGRAMS FOR AN ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTER 2nd Ed 1957" ia903205.us.archive.org/14/items/pro...
August 3, 2026 at 1:13 AM
From "THE PREPARATION OF PROGRAMS FOR AN ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTER 2nd Ed 1957" ia903205.us.archive.org/14/items/pro...
I have to say i never understood exactly how that worked but here they explain it www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BA4...
EDSAC delay line storage - early computer memory
YouTube video by TNMoC
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July 23, 2026 at 2:34 AM
I have to say i never understood exactly how that worked but here they explain it www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BA4...
www.youtube.com/shorts/qb5Vr... // cool and all but I need one display with old memory/delay storage methods that were used in early computers like the mercury delay lines from the EDSAC e UNIVAC
When mom says we have data transmission at home
YouTube video by Brett Tech
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July 23, 2026 at 2:03 AM
www.youtube.com/shorts/qb5Vr... // cool and all but I need one display with old memory/delay storage methods that were used in early computers like the mercury delay lines from the EDSAC e UNIVAC
Have you seen what computers of his day looked like?
I've seen EDSAC and Colossus and he's just describing a building full of them (at www.tnmoc.org).
I've seen EDSAC and Colossus and he's just describing a building full of them (at www.tnmoc.org).
The National Museum of Computing
Home of the worlds oldest computers
www.tnmoc.org
July 16, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Have you seen what computers of his day looked like?
I've seen EDSAC and Colossus and he's just describing a building full of them (at www.tnmoc.org).
I've seen EDSAC and Colossus and he's just describing a building full of them (at www.tnmoc.org).
OXO (desarrollado por Alexander S. Douglas en 1952 para la computadora EDSAC en la Universidad de Cambridge) es considerado uno de los primeros videojuegos de la historia.
Lleva el juego del tres en ralla a un sistema visual con el que se puede interactuar con el fin de jugar al tres en raya.
Lleva el juego del tres en ralla a un sistema visual con el que se puede interactuar con el fin de jugar al tres en raya.
July 10, 2026 at 5:06 PM
OXO (desarrollado por Alexander S. Douglas en 1952 para la computadora EDSAC en la Universidad de Cambridge) es considerado uno de los primeros videojuegos de la historia.
Lleva el juego del tres en ralla a un sistema visual con el que se puede interactuar con el fin de jugar al tres en raya.
Lleva el juego del tres en ralla a un sistema visual con el que se puede interactuar con el fin de jugar al tres en raya.
Two-ton EDSAC - the first electronic computer to go into general use - celebrated with Blue Plaque @cam.ac.uk
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/two-ton...
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/two-ton...
Two-ton EDSAC - the first electronic computer to go into general use - celebrated with Blue Plaque at University of Cambridge
1949 computer marked birth of everyday computing.
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk
July 2, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Two-ton EDSAC - the first electronic computer to go into general use - celebrated with Blue Plaque @cam.ac.uk
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/two-ton...
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/two-ton...
Two-ton EDSAC - the first electronic computer to go into general use - celebrated with Blue Plaque at University of Cambridge
#Cambridge
#Cambridge
Two-ton EDSAC - the first electronic computer to go into general use - celebrated with Blue Plaque at University of Cambridge
1949 computer marked birth of everyday computing.
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk
July 2, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Two-ton EDSAC - the first electronic computer to go into general use - celebrated with Blue Plaque at University of Cambridge
#Cambridge
#Cambridge
You know it's serious #history when you get a blue plaque. #edsac #retrocomputing
BBC News - Blue plaque awarded for Cambridge computer creation: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyk5d137nlo
BBC News - Blue plaque awarded for Cambridge computer creation: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyk5d137nlo
July 1, 2026 at 7:58 PM
You know it's serious #history when you get a blue plaque. #edsac #retrocomputing
BBC News - Blue plaque awarded for Cambridge computer creation: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyk5d137nlo
BBC News - Blue plaque awarded for Cambridge computer creation: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyk5d137nlo
A blue plaque has been unveiled at the University of Cambridge for the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) created in 1949 which was the first practical computer that could both hold instruction & data in the same memory. It weighed 2 tonnes. 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Blue plaque awarded for Cambridge computer creation
The machine created in 1949 was the forerunner of most of today's general-purpose computers.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 28, 2026 at 7:26 AM
A blue plaque has been unveiled at the University of Cambridge for the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) created in 1949 which was the first practical computer that could both hold instruction & data in the same memory. It weighed 2 tonnes. 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#OTD in 1913, Maurice V. Wilkes was born. Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. He received the 1967 #ACMTuringAward for his many contributions to the field of #computerscience: amturing.acm.org/award_winner...
June 26, 2026 at 12:30 PM
#OTD in 1913, Maurice V. Wilkes was born. Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. He received the 1967 #ACMTuringAward for his many contributions to the field of #computerscience: amturing.acm.org/award_winner...
EDSAC, the first computer built at Cambridge University has been celebrated with a Blue Plaque 💙
It is the first time an @cambridgeppf.bsky.social Blue Plaque has commemorated the creation of a machine.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4vYzrxq
It is the first time an @cambridgeppf.bsky.social Blue Plaque has commemorated the creation of a machine.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4vYzrxq
June 24, 2026 at 11:00 AM
EDSAC, the first computer built at Cambridge University has been celebrated with a Blue Plaque 💙
It is the first time an @cambridgeppf.bsky.social Blue Plaque has commemorated the creation of a machine.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4vYzrxq
It is the first time an @cambridgeppf.bsky.social Blue Plaque has commemorated the creation of a machine.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4vYzrxq
I can’t believe I didn’t see this on Bluesky sooner. Again, congrats on the release Bloopy! It’s amazing to see MM’s concept and evolution over the years come to fruition.
Real ones remember when EDSAC was white (incomprehensible sentence for everyone barring like 5 people).
Real ones remember when EDSAC was white (incomprehensible sentence for everyone barring like 5 people).
May 23, 2026 at 1:17 PM
I can’t believe I didn’t see this on Bluesky sooner. Again, congrats on the release Bloopy! It’s amazing to see MM’s concept and evolution over the years come to fruition.
Real ones remember when EDSAC was white (incomprehensible sentence for everyone barring like 5 people).
Real ones remember when EDSAC was white (incomprehensible sentence for everyone barring like 5 people).
Alexander Shafto "Sandy" Douglas CBE (21 May 1921 – 29 April 2010) was a British professor of computer science, credited with creating the first graphical computer game, OXO, a version of noughts and crosses, in 1952 on the EDSAC computer at University of Cambridge. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_D...
Sandy Douglas - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
May 21, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Alexander Shafto "Sandy" Douglas CBE (21 May 1921 – 29 April 2010) was a British professor of computer science, credited with creating the first graphical computer game, OXO, a version of noughts and crosses, in 1952 on the EDSAC computer at University of Cambridge. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_D...
The first assembler
The first assembler
In the spring of 1949, programmers at the Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory fed paper tape into the EDSAC — a machine that occupied most of a room, ran on 3,000 vacuum tubes , and stored its memory in mercury-filled tubes the length of your arm. Writing a program meant punching 17-bit binary…
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May 12, 2026 at 7:58 PM
The first assembler
yooooooooooo lmfao it's so funny how we've circled back around to computers being as big as a whole room again.
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
May 7, 2026 at 1:57 PM
yooooooooooo lmfao it's so funny how we've circled back around to computers being as big as a whole room again.
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
On this day in 1949, the EDSAC at Cambridge University ran its first programs!
It calculated a table of squares and a list of prime numbers, becoming the first practical general-purpose stored-program computer in regular service. The digital world started here.
#EDSAC #OnThisDay
It calculated a table of squares and a list of prime numbers, becoming the first practical general-purpose stored-program computer in regular service. The digital world started here.
#EDSAC #OnThisDay
May 6, 2026 at 3:15 PM
On this day in 1949, the EDSAC at Cambridge University ran its first programs!
It calculated a table of squares and a list of prime numbers, becoming the first practical general-purpose stored-program computer in regular service. The digital world started here.
#EDSAC #OnThisDay
It calculated a table of squares and a list of prime numbers, becoming the first practical general-purpose stored-program computer in regular service. The digital world started here.
#EDSAC #OnThisDay