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Computer News · 01-12-10, 09:40 AM

Sir Maurice Wilkes died on Monday, aged 97. He led the team at Cambridge University who built the EDSAC – the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator – which was one of the first commercial stored-program computers ever built when it was finished in 1949. EDSAC used mercury delay lines for memory, and vacuum tubes for [...]

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Computer News Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 845 Thanks: 0 Thanked 11 Times in 8 Posts	British computer genius Sir Maurice Wilkes dies Sir Maurice Wilkes died on Monday, aged 97. He led the team at Cambridge University who built the EDSAC – the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator – which was one of the first commercial stored-program computers ever built when it was finished in 1949. EDSAC used mercury delay lines for memory, and vacuum tubes for [...] More: British computer genius Sir Maurice Wilkes dies