Maurice Wilkes - EDSAC - The British Library

Maurice Wilkes: EDSAC

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Maurice Wilkes talks about how he intended the 1949 EDSAC computer to help users do calculations faster.

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When I started building the EDSAC, I had no doubt about who were going to be our users; they were people like myself. I mean, I used to be doing things that would take perhaps a week, solving a set of ten by ten linear equations took about a week with a desk machine. Well that could be done rapidly with a digital computer. And those were the people that we made the EDSAC available to, research students in the lab and others, anybody who could make a good case could use it.

Interviewee: Maurice Wilkes
Duration: 00:00:39
Copyright: British Library Board
Interviewer: Thomas Lean
Date of interview: 6/2/2010
Shelfmark: C1379/21