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50th Anniversary of the Manchester Baby computer
Computer 50
The University of Manchester Celebrates
the Birth of the Modern Computer
The Small-Scale Experimental Machine, known as SSEM, or
the "Baby", was designed and built at
The University of Manchester,
and made its first successful run of a program on June 21st 1948.
It was the first machine that had all the components now classically regarded
as characteristic of the basic computer. Most importantly it was the first
computer that could store not only data but any (short!) user program
in electronic memory and process it at electronic speed.
From this Small-Scale Experimental Machine a full-sized
machine was designed and built, the
Manchester Mark 1, which by April 1949 was
generally available for computation in scientific research in the University.
With the integration of a high speed magnetic drum by the Autumn (the ancestor
of today's disc) this was the first machine with a fast electronic and magnetic
two-level store. It in turn was the basis of the first commercially available
computer, the
Ferranti Mark 1, the first machine off the production
line being delivered in February 1951.
These pages tell the story of the Baby and the Mark 1,
and give a record of the 50th anniversary
celebrations for the Mark 1, and the machines that followed it.
The highlight of the 1998 Celebrations was the construction of a
working replica of the Baby now on display at the
Museum of Science
and Industry in Manchester
(see Galleries > 1830
Warehouse > Baby Computer).
You can see the latest major changes in the pages in the
log -- latest entry
30th March 2005.
November 16th 1953 saw the first execution of
a program by the "Transistor Computer" -- see the
note by its
builder, Dick Grimsdale.
The Mark 1 Story
The StoryIn particularPeopleOutside Manchester
Introduction
SSEM, the "Baby"
Manchester Mark 1
Ferranti Mark 1
Mark 1 Literature
Recollections
Williams Tube
Display Tube
First Program
Using the Mark 1
Maths Dept. Input
Picture Gallery
F.C. Williams
Tom Kilburn
Alan Turing
Max Newman
Other People
Contemporary Computers
Moore School Course
Other Early History Sites
Some information on the set of four machines designed by
Tom Kilburn's team following on from the Mark 1
machines, up to 1974, is given in the
Virtual Museum of Manchester Computing. The Mark 1 and the
next three machines were all turned into commercial machines; the fifth, MU5,
made a
major contribution to the design of the ICL VME2900
series. The
biography of Tom effectively gives a summary of
the story of the Mark 1 and his later machines.
You can also find out about
Current Research
in the
School of Computer Science.
Tom Kilburn died on January 17th 2001.
A Memorial Service was held on May
1st 2001.
A short summary of his achievements
can be found here.
A CD-ROM produced for the Celebrations
is available
Are you interested in helping to maintain and
demonstrate the Replica Baby machine?
Obviously over time some of the more ephemeral material originally linked to
in these pages has disappeared off the Web. Links to such material have been replaced
by underlined text in black.
These pages have been written and prepared by
Brian Napper.
Copyright The University of Manchester 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005
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