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> EDSAC - widely accepted as the first proper "stored program" computer This is debatable at the very least, since Manchester Baby was completed an year earlie
by lgeek 13y ago
> EDSAC - widely accepted as the first proper "stored program" computer
This is debatable at the very least, since Manchester Baby was completed an year earlier[0] and Manchester Mark 1[1] was operational before EDSAC ran its first program.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Small-Scale_Experimental_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Small-Scale_Experim...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Mark_1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Mark_1
- rootbear 13y agoThat raised my eyebrow as well. The 65th anniversary of the Baby was just a week ago, so it was fresh in my mind. It was experimental, but the follow-on Mark-1 does seem to have beat the EDSAC by about about a month. I love reading about those old machines, so much happening so fast.