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| | 50th Anniversary of the Manchester Baby computer |
 | | The Small-Scale Experimental Machine, known as SSEM, or the "Baby", was designed and built at The University of Manchester, and made its first successful run of a program on June 21st 1948. |
 | | From this Small-Scale Experimental Machine a full-sized machine was designed and built, the Manchester Mark 1, which by April 1949 was generally available for computation in scientific research in the University. |
 | | The Mark 1 and the next three machines were all turned into commercial machines; the fifth, MU5, made a major contribution to the design of the ICL VME2900 series. |
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