22 Oct
2010
22 Oct
'10
5:11 a.m.
From: "Rod Smallwood" <rodsmallwood at
btconnect.com>
And we have a winner!!
The Manchester computer of 1948 (Built 1946-1948)
It could store 1024 bits on a cathode-ray-tube, enough to demonstrate the
stored-program principle in working electronics, the first in the world to
do so
Built under the direction of Alan Turing and A von Neumann
?
No, sorry the ORIGINAL Manchester Baby no longer exists. Fellow members of the Computer
Conservation Society have built a replica, correct in almost every respect but it is only
a few years old so does not qualify as oldest original working stored program computer. I
still would like to make a list of the top ten not just the top one.