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The "SSEM" was developed, Small-Scale Experimental Machine. It was better known as "The Manchester Baby".
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Manchester researcher Fredric Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Toothill developed this machine.
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The baby was built to test a new memory of technology but also was the very first electronic stored-program computer. That was both developed my Williams and Toothill.
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It was mostly designed as a testbed for the Williams tube, which is an early form of computer memory.
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Both Williams and Toothill with the Manchester "Baby" and other researchers. -
Fredric and Geoff -
It is a good use in todays society because, "The Manchester Baby" was designed to show that it was a practical storage device. By demonstrating to us that it could held data within, whether it was reading or writing for the use in computers.