Thursday, January 15, 2009

Happy 60th Birthday to the modern computer


Look how far we've come Baby!

Sixty years ago, "The Small Scale Experimental Machine" or "Baby" was born in a lab in Manchester. Filling a room, the first modern PC carried out different tasks using just 128 bytes of memory. It's first accomplishment was determining the highest factor of number, on June 21, 1948. Visit a working replica of Baby at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.

Video of Baby

Give your Mac or PC a hug today.


And get better soon Mr. Jobs!