BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
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Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer
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Electronic Data Storage Automatic Calculator
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Electronic Data Storage Automatic Computer
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) was originally built in in the Cambridge University Mathematical Laboratory by a team lead by the late Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes immediately following the Second World War.
Detailed explanation-2: -In May 1949, Maurice Wilkes built EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator), the first full-size stored-program computer, at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory, England with 512 35-bit words of memory, stored in 32 mercury delay lines holding 576 bits each.
Detailed explanation-3: -EDSAC stands for Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator.
Detailed explanation-4: -EDVAC: Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer. IBM:International Business Machines Corporation. EDSAC:Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator.