The Manchester Mark 1 computers
The first computers
First draft of a report on the EDVAC
First draft of a report on the EDVAC
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On June 21, 1948, in a redbrick building near the centre of a Manchester, England, a digital computer ran its first program successfully. The day was auspicious, because that was the very first time anywhere in the world that a stored program computer worked successfully. This short note summarises the background to that momentous development and explains a little about the machine called the 驴The Baby驴.