Historic EDSAC circuit diagrams rescued from pile for trash
(Phys.org) —A discovery of diagrams is helping to reconstruct a historically significant computer, named EDSAC. Nineteen detailed circuit diagrams sitting in a corridor pile destined for the scrap heap were recently discovered, rescued, and handed over to a project team who are trying to achieve a historical milestone in better understanding the earlier history of computing. and gaining insights about how EDSAC was built and to get in tune with the EDSAC engineers' thinking. The EDSAC Replica Project aim is to build a working replica of this Cambridge University-built computer, which ran its first program in 1949, widely acknowledged as the world's first practical, general purpose computer. EDSAC stands for Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator.