Thread: Baby is sixty today
View Single Post
Old 21-06-2008   #1
Llew
cerca trova...
 
Llew's Avatar
 
Join Date: 01-01-2000
Location: East Anglia
Posts: 4891
Thanks: 16
Thanked 232 Times in 216 Posts
Blog Entries: 1

My System: Triple Dragon with HDD/USB stick, Humax HDCI2000, Echostar AD3000ip & SR8700, Fortecstar 5100CIUltra, Aston Simba, RSD ODM300. Swedish Microwave 1.2 Motorised dish / Invacom C120 twin LNB driven by the AD3000. 3 other fixed dishes. Diablo/Mrev Cams


Fighting the evil 3 Dragons under the Don Quixote banner,Sir Llew persevered where others failed
Baby is sixty today
permalink
Manchester's Small Scale Experimental Machine 'Baby' was officially put through its paces on this day sixty years ago.

With a storage of 128 bits of information, it was way down in the evolutionary tree of computing, but at the time it was able to perform quite complex mathematical processes.

Using 1500 valves, it needed a large room, and I should think it was probably a bit warm in there when fired up

See HERE

And have a go at programming it yourself

_www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/Digital60/Baby/

Llew
__________________
Celebrating Ten Years Of The Forum As A Founder Member





Last edited by Llew; 21-06-2008 at 05:47 PM
Llew is offline   Reply With Quote