Fifty years ago today, computing history was made when Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge won the race to produce the world's first 'working' stored-program computer.
The world's first stored-program computer, dubbed Baby, had already been created in June 1948 by a team at Manchester University. But Baby was used only in laboratory conditions, and Manchester did...
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