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Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer. Completed in May 1949 by Maurice Wilkes and his team at Cambridge University, based on the EDVAC design report from John von Neumann.


The project was supported by J. Lyons & Co. Ltd., a British firm, who were rewarded with the first commercial computer LEO I based on the EDSAC design.