ELECTRONIC DISCRETE SEQUENTIAL AUTOMATIC COMPUTER
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(EDSAC, often "Electronic Delay StorageAutomatic Computer") Based upon the EDVAC (ElectronicDiscrete Variable Automatic Computer) designed in 1945, theEDSAC was completed in 1949 at the University of CambridgeMathematical Laboratory in England. The EDSAC performed itsfirst calculation on 1949-05-06. EDSAC was considered to bethe first computer to store programs. It ceased to exist inabout 1951.[What happened to it?]
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