Rebuilding the Baby

The University of Manchester’s Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), known as the Baby, was rebuilt as a replica to celebrate, in June 1998, the 50th anniversary of the running of the world’s first stored program. Read about background of the original Baby and how a replica of it was built.

 
Digital Summer 98 Castlefield

Digital Summer 1998

Rebuilding the Baby was only part of the Anniversary celebrations. Manchester celebrated the 50th Anniversary with a whole summer of events..

Chris Burton

Re-making history

Chris Burton talks about why the Baby was so important and his motivations for rebuilding it.


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