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
Ferranti Mark 1
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The Ferranti Mark 1, also known as the Manchester Electronic Computer in its sales literature, and thus sometimes called the Manchester Ferranti, was produced by British electrical engineering firm Fe
Manchester Baby
…at the university to develop it into a full-scale operational machine, the Manchester Mark 1. The Mark 1 in turn quickly became the prototype for the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercially available general-purpose computer. The Baby had a 32-bit word length and a memory of 32 words (1 kibibit, 1,024 bits…
Ferranti Mark 1 components