The Computer Laboratory has a long history in the world of computing and has made many august contributions to the subject.
This Relics Project has two aims:
- to catalogue and preserve the various artifacts of historical interest stored around the lab,
- to create video recordings of lab members who used our early computers talking about those artifacts,
The project started in September 1997, and the first recorder was Prof. David Wheeler.
- A Virtual Exhibition, featuring major machines from the history of the Computer Lab.
- Search the database. Over 200 items from the earliest days of the Mathematical lab to the present day.
License
The materials directly hosted under the URL of this page are available for use and sharing under the CC4BY license CC4BY-LICENSE.txt.
Documents
- Early events in the history of the Computer Lab by David Wheeler
- The start of the EDSAC log Transcribed by David Wheeler
- The EDSAC Order Code, also some Explanatory Notes
- Some photographs from the EDSAC Archive
- Some documents from the early days of the Lab
- The EDSAC99 Conference
Resources
EDSAC
- Ivars Peterson's MathLand: Computing with the EDSAC
EDSAC Simulators:
- Evangelist: Macintosh Emulation of EDSAC
- Patent Pending: Simulators: Cambridge EDSAC
- CCS Archive – EDSAC Simulator Readme Text
- Edsac Simulator
Sir Maurice Wilkes
- Maurice V. Wilkes
- An after dinner speech given by MV Wilkes on the contributions of Alan Turing
- homepage