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* [[EDVAC]], conceived in June 1945 in ''[[First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC]]'', but not delivered until August 1949.

* [[BINAC]], delivered to a customer on 22 August 1949. It worked at the factory but there is disagreement about whether or not it worked satisfactorily after being delivered. If it had been finished at the projected time, it would have been the first stored-program computer in the world. It was the first stored-program computer in the U.S.<ref>Hally, Mike. ''Electronic Brains'', 2005, pp. 40-41.</ref>

* [[Manchester University Transistor Computer]] , is generally regarded as the first transistor-based stored-program computer having become operational in November 1953. <ref name="fransman"> T Kilburn, R L Grimsdale and D C Webb (1956), [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_6DMnS1Y12cC&pg=PA19 ''A transistor digital computer with a magnetic drum store''], [[Cambridge University Press|CambridgProc. IEE Vol. 103, Part B, Supp. 1-3. 1956. Pages 390 – 406e University Press]]</ref> <ref>R L Grimsdale [https://www.computerconservationsociety.org/resurrection/res13.htm#c The Transition from Valves to Computers], Resurrection volume 13, Computer Conservation Society</ref>

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