Sixty years ago the "modern computer" was born in a lab in Manchester.
The Small Scale Experimental Machine, or "Baby", was the first to contain memory which could store a program.
The room-sized computer's ability to carry out different tasks - without having to be rebuilt - has led some to describe it as the "first modern PC".
Using just 128 bytes of memory, it successfully ran its first set of instructions - to determine the highest factor of a number - on 21 June 1948.
BBC NEWS | Technology | One tonne "Baby" marks its birth
June 20, 2008
Happy birthday, computer.
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A professor told me that the fist computer was made in order to connect the army base with the rest of their contacts, at the beginning it was something secret but some years ago it turned in a famous web through the world.m10m
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