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Almost 70 years after it first ran a program, a team of volunteers are attempting to build a working replica of the EDSAC, one of the world's first general purpose computers.
The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer (EDSAC) was an early British computer constructed by computer science pioneer Sir Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory. One of the first computers to help solve general problems, it ran its first programme on 6 May 1949 and helped transform research methods.
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