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Manchester Baby
Also Known As Small-Scale Experimental Machine
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The Manchester Baby, also called the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, was the first electronic stored program computer: the first machine to hold its own program in the same memory as its data, which is the organization every modern computer uses. It was built at the Victoria University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948, a date this atlas treats as the birthday of software as a thing a machine can hold.
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SignificanceThe first electronic stored program computer; it ran the world's first stored program on 21 June 1948. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Manchester Baby
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The Manchester Baby, also called the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), was the first electronic stored-program computer.
Wikipedia: EDSAC
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the 1948 Manchester Baby computer predated EDSAC as a stored-program computer
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