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Modern Baby: A pioneering computer from Manchester
A pioneering computer from Manchester
After John von Neumann’s paper First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC was circulated by Herman Goldstine, a number of copies made their way across the Atlantic and into the hands of some of the engineers who had worked on the development of the Colossus code-braking computer. Together with a small team, including Geoff Tootill and David Edwards, the two men set out to build a computer according to von Neumann’s principles. Geoff Tootill: At the end of the war he was offered a post at Manchester university and he accepted with enthusiasm and he took one of his chaps, Tom Kilburn and also asked for other bright young men, so I was the next one.
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