You’re working on one right now. Maybe you’d like to know more about the forerunner of today’s PC, The Small Scale Experimental Machine, better known as “Baby”, which ran its first program at 11 am, 21 June 1948, at Manchester University in the UK, sixty years ago.
Baby was the first “stored program computer”, meaning it ran programs by loading them into a temporary memory store, or random-access memory (RAM), just as computers do today.
“That approach, and the fact the Baby was fully electronic, made it much easier to reprogram than previous computers,” says Geoff Tootill, who helped design, build and test Baby. Check out this article from New Scientist Tech which also features a slideshow of Baby and her creators.
Oops!
Birdie, Darling……the first word should be “You’re”, not “your.”
dang it
thanks M.B.