Manchester Baby (SSEM), first stored-program computer
Manchester Baby, primer computador de programa almacenado en funcionar
- Date
- 1948 · confidence high
- Place
- University of Manchester, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Frederic Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill
- People
- 👤 Frederic Williams👤 Geoff Tootill1922–2017👤 Tom Kilburn1921–2001
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
On 21 June 1948 it ran the first program stored in electronic memory (Williams tubes). It experimentally validated the von Neumann architecture.
What it led to
- The Ferranti Mark 1, first commercial general-purpose computer (1951)
- The post-war British school of computing
- Random-access memory as a core component
Built on
Made possible
- Assembly language and subroutines1949
- Turing test and the idea of machine intelligence1950
- Ferranti Mark 1
- EDSAC
- Manchester Mark 1