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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
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| Super Moderator Join Date: 13-08-2007 Location: Middle East - Israel
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My System: Satellite Dish 1.6m Hotbird 13E, DreamBox 7000S with Gemini 4.4.0; Dish 1.2m Amos 4W, Nokia 9600S; Nokia 9800S; Hauppauge Nexus-S PCI Card He battled for 3 days against the Tux and won! Hurray!! | Thanks Llew for this remider about how computers evolved. Hope that today's youngesters would have enough wisdom to appreciate it. But has our world become better as a result of technology? I think the quality of life was better with horse carriages instead of cars, ships instead of aeroplanes, books instead of TV, pigeon post instead of mobile phones and without computers to type this post. | ||
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| Prince of Birthdays  Join Date: 28-09-2005 Location: Sweden
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My System: Dream7020 and lots of junk all over the place | This is funny. Yesterday I read in the news that Sweden (secret police) just had teh new and fresh computer installed. It is # 5 in the world (wonder why we need such a baby ?) The State has always funds for stuff like this. I know a friend who has an uncle that usually meets this guy that is woaking at the time schedule at one of them old Super Computer ( a Cray) and he fixed me some spare time using this wonder baby (counted in second, doing a man year work) This new baby will be harder | ||
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