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EDSAC

Computer
The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator was an early British computer. Inspired by John von Neumann's seminal First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, the machine was constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge... Wikipedia
Release date: 6 May 1949; 74 years ago
CPU: Derated thermionic valves
Developer: Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory
Display: Teleprinter
Generation: 1
Input: five-hole punched tape
Memory: 512 17-bit words, upgraded in 1952 to 1024 17-bit words (temperature-stabilized mercury delay lines)