Oldest original working proper computer (stored program etc) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Oct 2010

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  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.