EDVAC
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EDVAC was one of the earliest electronic computers. It was built by Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Along with ORDVAC, it was a successor
The EDVAC as installed in Building 328 at the Ballistic Research Laboratory
EDSAC
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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 Wil
EDVAC
…concept that is now called the Von Neumann architecture. This was the storing of the program in the same memory as the data. The British computers EDSAC at Cambridge and the Manchester Baby were the first working computers that followed this design, and it has been followed by the great majority of…
EDSAC I in June 1948
9-inch tubes used for monitoring
William Renwick with 5-hole tape reader and Creed teleprinter
Maurice Wilkes inspecting the mercury delay line of the EDSAC in construction