This is specifically related to CS1001/1011 at The University Of Manchester.
| 1791 - 1871 |
Charles Babbage started a difference engine, and planned an analytical engine. |
| 1936 |
Alan M. Turing publishes "On Computing Numbers With An Application To The Entscheidungsproblem", and meets Von Neumann at Princeton. |
| 1937 - 1939 |
John V. Atanasoff invents binary electronic computing machine. |
| 1941 |
Atanasoff builds a more advanced machine, the ABC. |
| 1942 |
Tom Kilburn and FC Williams at TRE (Telecomms Research Establishment). |
| 1938 - 1944 |
Konrad Zuse builds Z1 to Z4, electro-mechanical machines, sold company to Siemens. |
| 1939 - 1945 |
Turing works at Bletchley Park. Collossus secretly built, directed by Max Newman. |
| 1945 |
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) built at University Of Pennsylvania by John Mauchly and Presper Eckert to calculate ballistics tables. |
| 1945 |
Max Newman accepts Chair Of Mathematics at University Of Manchester, and receives a grant to set up computing laboratory. |
| 1946 |
FC Williams takes Chair Of Electrotechnics at University Of Manchester, and Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill follow. |
| 1946 - 1947 |
Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill (under FC Williams) work on CRT store. |
| 1945 - 1948 |
Turing designed ACE. |
| 1948 |
Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill work on computer to test CRT store, based on 'Von Neumann' concept. |
| June 21st 1948 |
The 'Baby' runs first program successfully. |
| 1947 - 1951 |
Von Neumann, Mauchly and Eckert design and build EDVAC, a machine following 'Von Neumann' stored program concept. |
| 1949 |
'Baby' enhanced to become Mark I, Turing wrote a long division routine for it. |
| 1949 |
Maurice Wilkes builds EDSAC at Cambridge, based on EDVAC. |
| February 1951 |
Ferranti work with Williams and Kilburn to make commercial machine, Max Newman provided support, and Turing wrote a programming manual. |
| 1952 - 1953 |
Transistor Computer designed in Manchester, eventually sold by Metropolitan Vickers as MV950. |
| 1954 |
MEG designed, based on Mark I. |
| 1956 |
MUSE (microsecond computer) designed in Manchester. |
| 1957 |
Ferranti sold Mercury machines, from MEG design. |
| 1957 - 1963 |
Mercury computer used at University Of Manchester. |
| 1962 |
MUSE renamed to Atlas and sold by Ferranti (or ICT, as it became). |
| 1962 - 1971 |
Atlas provides Manchester's computing service. |
| 1974 - 1979 |
MU5 provides Manchester's computing service, commericalised by ICL. |
| 1998 |
Baby rebuilt. |
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