21 Jun
2008
21 Jun
'08
7:09 p.m.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7465115.stm
One tonne 'Baby' marks its birth
By Jonathan Fildes
Science and technology reporter, BBC News
Baby project team
The four remaining members of the Baby team will be honoured in Manchester
Sixty years ago the "modern computer" was born in a lab in Manchester.
The Small Scale Experimental Machine, or "Baby", was the first to
contain memory which could store a program.
The room-sized computer's ability to carry out different tasks - without
having to be rebuilt - has led some to describe it as the "first modern
PC".
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