Typescript draft of a research paper by David Wheeler, central member of the EDSAC team at the Cambridge University Mathematical Laboratory.

According to the Royal Society, the paper was submitted by Wheeler to the Royal Society on 4th April 1950, and then published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society  A, Volume 202, Issue 1071 (22 Aug 1950), pp. 573-589, jointly in the names of Wheeler and Douglas Hartree.  

The full text as published is available via the Royal Society website:
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1950.0121

Transcript :

[Transcription of page 1, owing to extremely faded original. This Summary doesn't appear in the published text]

Programme Organisation and Initial Orders for the EDSAC by D.J. Wheeler
University Mathematical Laboratory, Cambridge


SUMMARY

This paper gives the methods by which programmes are designed 
on the EDSAC which is a typical automatic calculating machine
Orders for the machine are represented outside the machine in a
form different to the binary form used to represent them inside
the machine and the necessary translation is done during the 
input of orders. This system allows the use of a more flexible
system of representing orders than the binary form used inside.
    This system also enables sub-routines to be adjusted by means
of parameters and enables a library of sub-routines to be made
which eases the construction of long programmes. A complete
simple example is worked out in detail to illustrate the principles
involved.

Provenance :
Passed to the LCS archive at CCH by Peter Byford, Oct 2018, kept in a folder labelled 'Programming LEO I'.