Manchester Baby | First Stored Program Computer (1948)
The Manchester Baby, also known as the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), was the world's first electronic stored-program computer. It was built at the Victoria University of Manchester, England, by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Tooti
1948-06-21 16:00:00 - Computing Heritage
This video was produced by Google as a tribute to the "Manchester Baby" - the first computer to run a program electronically stored in its memory. This was a flagship moment, described by some as the "birth of software".
To find out more see:
https://googleblog.blogspot.com
While nothing remains of the original machine, a working replica is on display at MOSI (Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester). For more information about MOSI and demonstration times of The Baby visit www.mosi.org.uk