Xref: utzoo comp.sys.misc:1500 comp.misc:2669 comp.arch:5263 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!bct From: bct@its63b.ed.ac.uk (B Tompsett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch 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) Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, U.K. Lines: 28 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. -- > Brian Tompsett. Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, > JCMB, The King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, EDINBURGH, EH9 3JZ, Scotland, U.K. > Telephone: +44 31 667 1081 x2711. > JANET: bct@uk.ac.ed.ecsvax ARPA: bct%ed.ecsvax@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk > USENET: bct@ecsvax.ed.ac.uk UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!ed.ecsvax!bct > BITNET: ukacrl.earn!ed.ecsvax!bct or bct%ed.ecsvax@uk.ac