💻⚡ The Manchester “Baby” – First Stored-Program Computer

Mrrajput_2212 Best of 2025

2025-09-22 10:01

June 21, 1948, marked a historic moment in computing: the first program ever ran on a digital, electronic, stored-program computer. 🖥️

📍 Key Facts:

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  • Developed by Frederic Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Toothill at the University of Manchester
  • Known as the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), nicknamed the “Baby”
  • Built to test Williams Tube memory, the world’s first high-speed electronic random access memory

💡 The First Program:

  • Written by Tom Kilburn, it consisted of 17 instructions
  • Successfully executed on the Baby, proving the concept of stored-program computing – a cornerstone of modern computers 🏛️

✨ Why it Matters:

The Baby’s success paved the way for the Manchester Mark 1 and influenced the design of almost all modern computers.

💬 Question to Questers:

Would you rather program a historic machine like the Baby or code on today’s super-powerful PCs? 🖱️

#ManchesterBaby #HistoryOfComputing #StoredProgramComputer #iQOOMoments 


💫 Happy Questing, Fam 🚀🎉

— @Mrrajput_2212  (iQOO ID: 100459)

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