Manchester Baby
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The Manchester Baby, also called the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, was the first electronic stored-program computer. It was built at the Victoria University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams,
An Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Milestone plaque commemorating the Manchester Baby and its derivatives. Caption reads: IEEE MILESTONE: Manchester University "Baby" Computer and its Derivatives, 1948-1951. At this site on 21 June 1948 the "Baby" became the first computer to execute a program stored in addressable read-write electronic memory. "Baby" validated Williams-Kilburn Tube random-access memories, later widely used, and led to the 1949
A plaque in honour of Williams and Kilburn at the University of Manchester
The output CRT is immediately above the input device, flanked by the monitor and control electronics.
Output CRT
EDVAC
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EDVAC was one of the earliest electronic computers. It was built by Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Along with ORDVAC, it was a successor
The EDVAC as installed in Building 328 at the Ballistic Research Laboratory
