QuoteBletchley Park has launched a project to rebuild one of the world's first modern computers.
The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) was put together at Cambridge University in the late 1940s as a tool for researchers and scientists. The room-sized valve-based system, designed and developed by the late Sir Maurice Wilkes, first ran in 1949 and served academics faithfully for nine years until its decommission in 1958.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/13/edsac_rebuild_bletchley_park/
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I saw this on the BBC News technology page earlier. It's a pity they didn't rebuild it sooner as Maurice Wilkes who designed it died only last November. I'm sure he would have liked to have been involved in the re-build.
They have been very slow to get around to it, haven't they. :(
One problem is valves. Who would still make them? Some types of technology are lost to the ages. Like most of the techniques used to make the Pyramids.
Bring back slavery. ;D