Despite the museum being closed for much of 2020, the EDSAC team have continued working on the machine, finding Covid-secure ways to do so. In this video you can see the team commissioning the interface between Main Control and the Arithmetic Unit and hear an update from Andrew Herbert the project manager on progress to date.
Read MoreEDSAC depended upon delay lines for main store and internal registers. This originally used mercury but due to cost and safety considerations, nickel delay lines will be used instead.
Professor Peter Linington explains how he researched the construction of nickel delay lines and set about manufacturing them for the EDSAC reconstruction.
Read MoreThe National Museum of Computing was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee on 2005, number 05407952. The company was granted charitable status in England and Wales in 2005, charity number 1109874.
