***************************************************************** THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY EDSAC ------------------------------ EDSAC, Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer, was built by Maurice Wilkes and colleagues at the University of Cambridge Mathematics Lab, and came into use in May 1949. It was a very well- engineered machine, and Wilkes designed it to be a productive tool for mathematicians from the start. It used mercury delay line tanks for main store (512 words of 36 bits) and half megacycle/S serial bit rate. Input and output on paper tape, easy program load, nice rememberable machine order-code. See Resurrection issue 2 for some of Wilkes' design decisions. Simulators of EDSAC included here are: edsac.zip by Lee Wittenberg (leew@pilot.njin.net) for MSDOS It was copied from bart.kean.edu/pub/leew/ There are excellent simulators by Martin Cambell-Kelly for the PC (running under Windows 95 or NT), and for the Macintosh. These come with many example programs. Point your browser to: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/ CPBurton 31 December 1996 **********************************************************************