Baby's birthday... Web Page on BBC - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Jun 1998

Yes,onlyone was made [well, two,if you count the remake.

It was the predecessor to the Mark One, which was, in turn the predecessor
to the Feranti Mark One, which claims to be the
first comercially available computer.

Other interestinf firsts from Manchester... the first use of virtual
memory...

Grant.

Philip.Belben(a)powertech.co.uk on 06/18/98 06:20:10 PM

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[Manchester SSEM]
...
     That's pretty neat. Let me know if all the
lights in town dim when they
...
  turn it back on!

    Any idea how many of those were sold and what they cost? Um.  Yes.  AFAIK, none
were sold, and they (it) cost a lot.  :-)
But they probably didn't track the cost accurately, since the machine
was continually being extended - it (i.e. the physical hardware, not
just the design) was used as a basis for the next couple of Manchester
machines (including the mark 1, I think).
Philip.