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==External links== {{commons category|EDSAC}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20101124230055/http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/%7Eedsac/ An EDSAC simulator] β Developed by [[Martin Campbell-Kelly]], Department of Computer Science, [[University of Warwick]], England. * [http://purl.umn.edu/107711 Oral history interview with David Wheeler, 14 May 1987]. [[Charles Babbage Institute]], University of Minnesota. Wheeler was a research student at the University Mathematical Laboratory at Cambridge in 1948β1951 and a pioneer programmer on the EDSAC project. Wheeler discusses projects that were run on EDSAC, user-oriented programming methods, and the influence of EDSAC on the [[ILLIAC]], the [[ORDVAC]], and the [[IBM 701]]. Wheeler also notes visits by [[Douglas Hartree]], [[Nelson Blackman]] (of ONR), [[Peter Naur]], [[Adriaan van Wijngaarden|Aad van Wijngarden]], [[Arthur van der Poel]], [[Friedrich L. Bauer|Friedrich Bauer]], and [[Louis Couffignal]]. * [http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/CCS/res/res22.htm#b Nicholas Enticknap and Maurice Wilkes, Cambridge's Golden Jubilee] β in: RESURRECTION The Bulletin of the Computer Conservation Society. {{ISSN|0958-7403}}. Number 22, Summer 1999. * [http://www.vintage-icl-computers.com/EDSAC The EDSAC Paperwork Collection at The ICL Computer Museum]. * [https://history.dcs.ed.ac.uk/archive/staging-area/EDINBURGH_REUNION/edsac/edsac.pdf Introduction to programming for EDSAC 2, 1957]. * [https://youtube.com/watch?v=54-9SoeG1is How the EDSAC computer changed science in the 1940s and 50s], a YouTube link on the channel called New Scientist, 7 Mar 2025 (viewed 15 Mar 2025). [[Category:1940s computers]] [[Category:1949 establishments in England]] [[Category:1949 in computing]] [[Category:Computer-related introductions in 1949]] [[Category:Early British computers]] [[Category:One-of-a-kind computers]] [[Category:Vacuum tube computers]] [[Category:University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory]] [[Category:History of the University of Cambridge]] [[Category:Serial computers]]
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