Baby and me

Suzanne Conboy-Hill gives a personal history of computing.

18 January 1999

Baby and I got going round about the same time in 1948. Baby, the first machine worthy of the title 'computer', took up the whole of one room at Manchester University. She had dedicated carers and, if you fed her coded information at one end, she would react with a satisfying response at the other. I did much the same.

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