Their work
resulted in three recent academic papers and a new book coming soon, in which they clearly
found that ENIAC was up-and-running in stored-program configuration a short time before
the Manchester and any other computers:
www.eniacinaction.com.
The authors of the
articles carefully avoid declarations of ENIAC as a stored-program machine.
Tom stated (in an email last fall): "we do conclude that an entirely
practical version of the programming method described in the seminal
1945 First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC was implemented on ENIAC in
March-April 1948, some months before the Manchester ?Baby? ran what has
usually been considered the first modern program."