A stored-program computer is a computer that stores program instructions in electronically or optically accessible memory. This contrasts with systems...

to set up and debug a program on ENIAC. With the proposal of the stored-program computer, this changed. A stored-program computer includes, by design,...

A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute. It is one component of software, which also...

stored program concept, a breakthrough which today is a hallmark of digital computers. Other innovations included the use of magnetic tape to store large...

this changed. A stored-program computer includes by design an instruction set and can store in memory a set of instructions (a program) that details the...

first electronic computers. However, with the concept of the stored-program computer introduced in 1949, both programs and data were stored and manipulated...

machines. Stored-program computers, by contrast, were designed to store a set of instructions (a program), in memory – typically the same memory as stored data...

the first stored-program computer; the Manchester Baby, which was a small-scale experimental stored-program computer, ran its first program on 21 June...

Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was a British early electronic serial stored-program computer design by Alan Turing. Turing completed the ambitious design in...

computer to run a stored program. It ran a factoring program for 52 minutes on June 21, 1948, after running a simple division program and a program to...

characteristic is that the switching system is controlled by a computer program stored in a memory in the switching system. SPC was the enabling technology...

Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), was the first electronic stored-program computer. It was built at the University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams...

generation of computers to be designed with greatly reduced power consumption. The first commercially available stored-program computer, the Ferranti...

Research Automatic Computer), originally known as CSIR Mk 1, was Australia's first digital computer, and the fifth stored program computer in the world. It...

The Manchester computers were an innovative series of stored-program electronic computers developed during the 30-year period between 1947 and 1977 by...

ran its first program and earned the distinction of first electronic stored-program computer. Though the idea of a stored-program computer with combined...

proving that no computer would be able to solve the decision problem. The universal Turing machine was a type of stored-program computer capable of mimicking...

The Manchester Mark 1 was one of the earliest stored-program computers, developed at the Victoria University of Manchester, England from the Manchester...

contents of that memory location on the data bus. (This is the stored-program computer model, in which a single memory space contains both executable...

ENIAC, it was binary rather than decimal, and was designed to be a stored-program computer. ENIAC inventors, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, proposed...

Software is a set of programmed instructions stored in the memory of stored-program digital computers for execution by the processor. Software is a recent...

(1979). "The paradigms of programming". Communications of the ACM. 22 (8): 455–460. doi:10.1145/359138.359140. "Computer History Museum | Fellow Awards...

files can store multiple data types at once. By using computer programs, a person can open, read, change, save, and close a computer file. Computer files...

simple von Neumann architecture computer—which has all of the basic features of a modern computer. It can be programmed in machine code (albeit in decimal...

and evolved into a first-generation stored program computer (Gamma AET, 1955, then ET, 1957). In its stored-program configurations, the Gamma 3 mostly...

take weeks to program and program loading was one of many problems that had to be solved. An early computer, ENIAC, had no program stored in memory, but...

to leave and start EMCC, the first computer company. BINAC was their first product, the first stored-program computer in the United States; BINAC is also...

the Automatic Computing Engine, one of the first designs for a stored-program computer. In 1948, Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Machine Laboratory...

electronic stored-program computer built by Harvard University under the supervision of Howard Aiken for the United States Air Force. The computer was finished...

the invention of computer programming languages up to the mid-1970s, most computer programmers created, edited and stored their programs line by line on...