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Celebrating Baby's 60th birthday and the start of the modern computer age



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Published Date: 21 June 2008
By Pat Hurst
SIXTY years ago today, in a nondescript university laboratory in Manchester, the world's first modern computer whirred into life – and nothing would ever be the same again.
Jokingly named Baby, the one-tonne machine spanned 5m by 2m , a mass of valves and wires, filling the lab at Manchester University.

When it cranked into life at 11am on 21 June, 1948, it became the first machine with a memory and the first to solv...



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Neil,

Glasgow 21/06/2008 13:09:58
Since then Moore's Law has been working - that, for a fixed real cost, computer capacity doubles every 18 months (ie a thousnadfold in 15 years) & experts say it is, if anything, increasing for the foreseable future.

The next 60 years will be unbelievable.

 

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