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From: bct@its63b.ed.ac.uk (B Tompsett)
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Subject: Re: Info wanted on eniac computers
Message-ID: <1496@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 23 Jun 88 16:16:55 GMT
References: <198@marque.mu.edu>  <17496@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> 
Reply-To: bct@ecsvax.ed.ac.uk (B Tompsett)
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In article  webber@porthos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) writes:
>[....]  Also, it was only plugboard-programmed until
>1948 at which time it became the first stored-program computer (although
>the store was read-only).  Prior to 1948, it was a parallel computer [....]
>----- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)

Correction: the Manchester Mark I was the first stored-program computer. It
first ran on 21st June 1948. This week marks the 40th aniversary of that event
which is being celebrated at Manchester.

 Princess Anne, The Princess Royal, unveiled a plaque to mark the 
anniversary at the place the original event took place at the precise
time of the anniversary. 

 This is not a situation (like the World Series, for example) where No. 1 in
the USA is the same as No. 1 in the World.

 Edinburgh has recently celebrated 25 years of computing which does not quite
match Manchesters 40!

  Brian.
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