70 years ago today a 'Baby' was born

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Well it's 70 years ago today that the boffins at Manchester University ran the first programme on the worlds first stored-program computer known officially as Small-Scale Experimental Machine or informally as Baby. Which many regard as the beginning of the modern Computer age :)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44554891


A whopping storage of 1024 bits! but I wonder if they realised how their work would so radically change the world. It must have been a really exciting time and I'm more than a little jealous that these people had the opportunity to cut a path to new frontiers for all of us. I'll certainly be raising a glass to Baby and the boffins tonight.


Of and in before "But how does it play Crysis" ;) :p
 
Just another area of British pioneering, our computing history really is fantastic.

I wish more time was spent honouring out best and brightest. Everywhere I look it's Love Island at the moment, even on the BBC websites. I bet the average person on the street has no idea about this part of our history, very sad...
 
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