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daveac
Registered: 04/12/06
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 Wednesday, June 18 2008 @ 07:43 AM EDT |
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To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of The Baby Manchester University will be have a special day this Friday. (21st June 1948 to 20th June 2008)
Check out these pages:-
'The Small Scale Experimental Machine – to give the Manchester invention its full title – successfully executed its first program on 21 June 1948 – and paved the way for the computers, iPods and mobile phones we all take for granted today.' see:-
Oh Baby! First photograph of early modern computer
Digital 60:-
Digital 60
Events including 'Kilburn Lecture' by Prof Steve Furber:-
Events
EDIT- another link for 'computer geeks':-
Background
SECOND EDIT
Tour 'Baby':-
Baby Tour
Third EDIT:- How's this for a quote from the 'Baby Tour' page:-
'F.C. Williams later said of the first successful run:
"A program was laboriously inserted and the start switch pressed. Immediately the spots on the display tube entered a mad dance. In early trials it was a dance of death leading to no useful result, and what was even worse, without yielding any clue as to what was wrong. But one day it stopped, and there, shining brightly in the expected place, was the expected answer. It was a moment to remember. This was in June 1948, and nothing was ever the same again.'
PS - small family connections - my brother-in-law worked in the old 'Baby' room when he started work at M'C University and now my daughter is involved with the event organisation.
Cheers, daveac
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daveac
Registered: 04/12/06
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| Wednesday, June 18 2008 @ 08:25 AM EDT |
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daveac
Registered: 04/12/06
Posts: 2636
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| Thursday, June 26 2008 @ 06:46 AM EDT |
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There is a Tech podcast that is by the Guardian Newspaper (from Manchester UK) than has a report on Baby's 60th birthday events.
here
EDIT - and here's the news page for Tech:-
here
Cheers, daveac
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Justice
Registered: 02/14/07
Posts: 520
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| Thursday, July 03 2008 @ 02:46 AM EDT |
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where's Dr. frankenstein? |
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"Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth."
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