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tkalli
06-21-2008, 03:43 PM
Sixty years ago the "modern computer" was born in a lab
in Manchester.

The Small Scale Experimental Machine, or "Baby", was the
first to contain memory which could store a program.

Read More... (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7465115.stm)

fldodger
06-21-2008, 05:47 PM
Baby! That thing filled a room.