The first computer with memory capable of storing a program, 'Baby', celebrated its 60th birthday yesterday in Manchester. Originally named the Small Scale Experimental Machine, but later nicknamed Baby, it weighed in at a non-baby like 1 tonne, took up a whole room at the University of Manchester and has been described, by some, as the first modern PC. Baby held 120bytes of memory and ran its first mathematical task on June 21, 1948.
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