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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>{{cite book |last=Hally |first=Mike |title=Electronic Brains |date=2005 |pages=40-41 |isbn=978-1862076631 |publisher=[[Granta]] |edition=First}}</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">{{cite journal |first1=T |last1=Kilburn, |author-link1=Tom Kilburn |first2=R L |last2=Grimsdale and|author-link2=Richard Grimsdale |first3=D C |last3=Webb (1956), [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id|title=_6DMnS1Y12cC&pg=PA19 ''A transistor digital computer with a magnetic drum store''], |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |CambridgProc.journal=[[Proceedings IEEof Vol.the 103,Institution of Electrical Engineers|Proceedings of the IEE]] - Part B,: Supp.Radio 1-3.and 1956.Electronic PagesEngineering 390|volume=103 –|issue=35 406e|date=April University1956 Press]]|pages=390–406 |doi=10.1049/pi-b-1.1956.0079}}</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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