We hate 2020!

Just when we thought 2020 couldn't get any worse! We were about to re-open after many months of being closed but then disaster struck when a mains water pipe burst and flooded much of the ground floor of the museum.
Sadly re-opening has now been postponed. Read More >>>

No visitors, no workshops, no events, no school visits... no income. We know that things are tough for everyone right now, but if you can afford to help us through these tough times please donate what you can.

There's over 36,000 exhibits here! That should keep you occupied for a bit - get searching!

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Thank you.

EDVAC goes online

August 1949
EDVAC goes online

EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer).

This machine could do things no other could. Through electrical states, the properties of mercury, and the ability to store 2 different states (1 or 0 which would signify either on or off) - EDVAC achieved something no other device had to date achieved.

Memory. It could not only calculate, but it could 'remember' and compute results based on various variables entered. In August 1949, the first computer with a "Stored Program" went on-line.

Work on this computer actually began in 1945, 2 years before the ENIAC computer went operational.

EDVAC goes online