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    The Manchester Baby, also called the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), was the first electronic stored-program computer. It was built at the University...
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    series, the Manchester Baby, ran its first program on 21 June 1948. As the world's first stored-program computer, the Baby, and the Manchester Mark 1 developed...
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    Manchester (/ˈmæntʃɪstər, -tʃɛs-/ listen) is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had an estimated population of 568,996...
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  • mercury delay lines. From about August 1948, the Baby was intensively developed as a prototype for the Manchester Mark 1, initially with the aim of providing...
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    electromechanical IBM SSEC and in Britain in the fully electronic Manchester Baby. Zuse suffered setbacks during World War II when some of his machines...
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    the EDVAC in 1945. The Manchester Baby was the world's first stored-program computer. It was built at the University of Manchester in England by Frederic...
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    The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester City Centre on Oxford Road...
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    single memory, that had been implemented four years earlier by the 1948 Manchester Baby. The Soviet MESM also became operational prior to the IAS machine....
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  • recognizably modern electronic digital stored-program computer was the Manchester Baby, which ran its first program on 21 June 1948. The development of transistors...
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    Park. History of computing hardware List of vacuum-tube computers Manchester Baby Z3 Z4 The two operators have been variously identified as Dorothy Du...
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    Von Neumann architecture (category Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester)
    of London) officially came online on May 12, 1948. Manchester Baby (Victoria University of Manchester, England) made its first successful run of a stored...
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    Tom Kilburn (category Alumni of the Victoria University of Manchester)
    stored-program computer, the Manchester Baby, while working at the University of Manchester. His work propelled Manchester and Britain into the forefront...
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    University of Manchester. There, with Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, he built the first electronic stored-program digital computer, the Manchester Baby. Williams...
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  • Poland "Baby", a term of endearment "Baby", a term of insult for infantilization Baby cell or C battery, a common size of battery Manchester Baby, the first...
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    the spinning wheel. The University of Manchester built the world's first programmable computer, the Manchester Baby, on 21 June 1948; the Williams–Kilburn...
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    Technical Journal. 43: 15–44. doi:10.1002/j.1538-7305.1964.tb04057.x. The Manchester Baby : The First Stored Program Computer. Google. 2013. "Open Rack 1.0 Specification...
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    required rewiring to reprogram until April 1948. In June 1948, the Manchester Baby ran its first program and earned the distinction of first electronic...
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    Burnage (category Areas of Manchester)
    Road, which forms part of the site where he landed. Babies' Hospital In 1919 the Manchester Babies Hospital moved to Cringle Hall in Burnage having previously...
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    Max Newman (category Academics of the University of Manchester)
    the University of Manchester, which produced the world's first working, stored-program electronic computer in 1948, the Manchester Baby. Newman was born...
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    Comp. 4 (30): 61–65. doi:10.1090/s0025-5718-1950-0037589-7. The 1948 Manchester Baby computer predated EDSAC as a stored-program computer, but was built...
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  • Geoff Tootill (category People associated with the Victoria University of Manchester)
    Engineering Department at the University of Manchester with Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn developing the Manchester Baby, "the world's first wholly electronic...
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    Manchester in England, the Williams tube provided the medium on which the first electronically stored program was implemented in the Manchester Baby computer...
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    computer; the Manchester Baby, which was a small-scale experimental stored-program computer, ran its first program on 21 June 1948 and the Manchester Mark 1...
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  • Jeffrey Allen Manchester (born 1971) is an American convicted spree-robber and former United States Army Reserve officer known as the 'Rooftop Robber'...
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  • lower). The world's first stored-program electronic computer, the Manchester Baby, used a 32-bit architecture in 1948, although it was only a proof of...
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  • Stored-program computer (category Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester)
    stored in the same storage used for data. In 1948, the Manchester Baby, built at University of Manchester, is generally recognized as world's first electronic...
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    7 May 2016. "The Manchester Small Scale Experimental Machine – "The Baby"". Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester. April 1999. Retrieved...
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    transistor, in 1947. In 1953, the University of Manchester built the first transistorized computer, the Manchester Baby. However, early junction transistors were...
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  • SSEM can refer to: Manchester Baby or Small-Scale Experimental Machine, historic computer South Seas Evangelical Mission, missionary organization in the...
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  • only ILLIAC and ORDVAC had compatible instruction sets. Manchester Baby (University of Manchester, England) made its first successful run of a stored program...
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