Synergy User Manual and Tutorial. - THE CORE MEMORY
Synergy User Manual and Tutorial. - THE CORE MEMORY
Synergy User Manual and Tutorial. - THE CORE MEMORY
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<strong>Synergy</strong> <strong>User</strong> <strong>Manual</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Tutorial</strong><br />
In 1948, at the University of Manchester in Engl<strong>and</strong>, the Small Scale Experimental<br />
Machine, nicknamed the “Baby”, successfully executed its first program, becoming<br />
world's first stored-program electronic digital computer. Frederic C. Williams (1911 -<br />
1977) <strong>and</strong> Tom Kilburn (1921 - 2001) built the machine to test the Williams-Kilburn<br />
Tube (type of memory composed of cathode vacuum tubes storing one bit of information<br />
on a cathode ray tube, illuminating a point on the screen that stays on) for speed <strong>and</strong><br />
reliability, <strong>and</strong> to demonstrate the feasibility of a stored program computer. Its success<br />
prompted the development of the Manchester Mark I, a useable computer based on the<br />
same principals. The picture shows the “Baby” (replica), the shortest cabinet at the right,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Mark I, the six taller cabinets.<br />
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