Rediscovered plans aid Edsac reconstruction

  • 25 June 2014
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By Mark Ward Technology correspondent, BBC News
 


The rebuild project had few plans to work with when it began
 
Detailed circuit diagrams for one of Britain's pioneering computers have come to light during a project to reconstruct the machine.
The 19 large-scale diagrams were drawn up when the first Edsac machine was being built just after World War Two.
Edsac was created at Cambridge University to help the institution's scientists analyse data.
The plans will aid the reconstruction project which started with only scant information about Edsac's innards.
 
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