Editing EDSAC (section)

==EDSAC Replica Project==
[[File:EDSAC replica.JPG|thumb|right|EDSAC replica in October 2018]]
On 13 January 2011, the [[Computer Conservation Society]] announced that it planned to build a working replica of EDSAC, at the [[National Museum of Computing]] (TNMoC) on the [[Bletchley Park]] campus. The project is led by [[Andrew Herbert]], who studied under Maurice Wilkes.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12181153 |title=Pioneering Edsac computer to be built at Bletchley Park |work=BBC News |date=13 January 2011 |first= Mark |last=Ward |access-date=2011-01-13}}</ref> The first parts of the replica were switched on in November 2014.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30131447 Museum switches on historic computer].</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Hartley |first1=David |last2=Herbert |first2=Andrew |title=Making the History of Computing Relevant |chapter=EDSAC Replica Project |volume=416 |date=2013 |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-41650-7_27 |at=''9 Current Status'', pp. 307–308 |language=en |series=IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology |isbn=978-3-642-41649-1 }}</ref> The EDSAC logical circuits were meticulously reconstructed through the development of a simulator and the reexamination of some rediscovered original schematics. This documentation has been released under a Creative Commons license.<ref>{{Cite web |title=EDSAC Logic Rebuild Sub-project |url=http://www.billp.org/ccs/Edsac/index.php |access-date=2023-08-24 |website=www.billp.org}}</ref> The ongoing project is open to visitors of the museum. In 2016, two original EDSAC operators, [[Margaret Marrs]] and [[Joyce Wheeler]], visited the museum to assist the project.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/inside-the-project-to-rebuild-the-edsac-one-of-the-worlds-first-general-purpose-computers/ |title=Inside the project to rebuild the EDSAC, one of the world's first general purpose computers |website=[[ZDNet]] |access-date=24 May 2020}}</ref> As of November 2016, commissioning of the fully completed and operational state of the replica was estimated to be the autumn of 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/inside-the-project-to-rebuild-the-edsac-one-of-the-worlds-first-general-purpose-computers/ |title=Inside the project to rebuild the EDSAC, one of the world's first general purpose computers |date=24 November 2016 |first=Danny |last=Palmer |website=[[ZDNet]] |access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref> However, unforeseen project delays have resulted in an unknown date for a completed and fully operational machine.