In October 1947, the directors of application to go live on a stored program computer.
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One of these was one of the first commercial stored program computers, the 36-bit ERA 1103.
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Colossus was not a stored program computer.
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The theory of DDAs was not developed until 1949, one year after ENIAC had been reconfigured as a stored program computer.
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The University of Manchester has been home to many supercomputers, starting from the 1948 Manchester Baby-the world's first stored program computer.
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"The stored program computer would have been developed without the ENIAC, " said Gwen Bell, director of collections for The Computer Museum in Boston.
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In 1947 the Navy awarded ERA a contract, " Task 13 ", to develop what was destined to be the first stored program computer.
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CALDIC was a stored program computer with a six-digit instruction format ( two digits for the opcode and four digits for the memory address ).
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The project built a parallel stored program computer called the IAS machine that was the prototype for a number of machines such as the MANIAC I, ORACLE, and ILLIAC series.
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The Computer Laboratory built and operated the world s first fully operational practical stored program computer ( EDSAC, 1949 ) and offered the world s first postgraduate taught course in computer science in 1953.