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Several computers could be considered the first stored-program computer, depending on the criteria.<ref>Edwin D. Reilly (2003). ''Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology'', p. 245.</ref>

* [[IBM SSEC]], became operational in January 1948 but was [[electromechanical]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Emerson W. Pugh|author2=Lyle R. Johnson|author3=John H. Palmer|title=''IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems''|url=https://archive.org/details/ibms360early370s0000pugh|url-access=registration|date=1991|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-51720-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/ibms360early370s0000pugh/page/15 15]}}</ref>

* In April 1948, modifications were completed to [[ENIAC]] to function as a stored-program computer, with the program instored its function tables (by setting dials onin its function tables, which could store 3,600 decimal digits for instructions. It ran its first stored program on April 12, 1948 and its first production program on April 17<ref>{{cite book|author1=Thomas Haigh|author2=Mark Priestley|author3=Crispen Rope

|title=ENIAC in Action:Making and Remaking the Modern Computer

|year=2016