Manchester Baby

The Manchester Baby, also known as the "Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine" (SSEM), is widely recognized as the world's first stored-program computer. It was developed in the early 1940s at the University of Manchester, England. The machine's primary purpose was to test the concept of storing programs in memory, rather than executing them sequentially from hardwired logic. The Manchester Baby was designed by a team led by Frederic C.