Wednesday 5 November 2008

The Baby Computer ( World's First )

This a replica of the world first computer. It was called The Baby. The machine ran the world's first stored program June 21st 1948. at Manchester University. It used a Cathode Ray Tube to read the information. A big step up from the adding machine The original was 17ft long and 7ft 4 inches high and weighed 1 tonne.

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