Blue plaque unveiled in Cambridge for Edsac, the 1949 computer that set standards for modern computing

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A blue plaque has been unveiled in Cambridge to commemorate the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (Edsac), the first computer built at the University of Cambridge in 1949. Edsac was the first practical machine capable of storing both instructions and data in the same memory, setting the standards for modern general-purpose computers. Weighing two tons and occupying an entire room, it was unveiled by civic charity Cambridge Past, Present & Future at the site of the university's former mathematical laboratory.

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