Posted on 06/21/2018 12:13:42 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Seventy years ago was arguably the start of the modern computer age.
A machine that took up an entire room at a laboratory in Manchester University ran its first programme at 11am on 21 June 1948.
The prototype completed the task in 52 minutes, having run through 3.5 million calculations.
The Manchester Baby, known formally as the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, was the world's first stored-program computer.
It paved the way for the first commercially-available computers in a city known for centuries of science and innovation.
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Sorry to hear that. The simulator works for me.
Yes, something like that would raise suspicion with TSA, since they probably have never seen one and wouldn’t understand the concept of a mechanical calculator.
Ah, thanks! Will do!
LOL!
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