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|pages=153, 157, 164, 174, 194}}</ref><ref>[https://epictechnologyforgreatjustice.weebly.com/eniac.html Epic Technology for Great Justice – ENIAC]</ref> This claim is disputed by some computer historians.<ref>https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Gh8SEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA987&dq=ENIAC+Stored+Program&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjzgoz3kLSAAxUKQEEAHQ8kB8UQ6AF6BAgKEAI#v=onepage&q=ENIAC%20Stored%20Program&f=false</ref>
* [[APEXC|ARC2]], a relay machine developed by [[Andrew Donald Booth|Andrew Booth]] and [[Kathleen Booth]] at [[Birkbeck, University of London]], officially came online on 12 May 1948.<ref name="birkbeck">{{cite journal|last1=Campbell-Kelly|first1=Martin|title=The Development of Computer Programming in Britain (1945 to 1955)|journal=IEEE Annals of the History of Computing|date=April 1982|volume=4|issue=2|pages=121–139|doi=10.1109/MAHC.1982.10016|s2cid=14861159}}</ref> It featured the first [[drum memory|rotating drum storage device]].<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Lavington|editor1-first=Simon|title=Alan Turing and his Contemporaries: Building the World's First Computers|date=2012|publisher=British Computer Society|___location=London|isbn=9781906124908|page=61}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Johnson|first1=Roger|title=School of Computer Science & Information Systems: A Short History|url=http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/site/assets/files/1029/50yearsofcomputing.pdf|website=Birkbeck College|publisher=University of London|access-date=23 July 2017|date=April 2008}}</ref>
* [[Manchester Baby]], a developmental, fully electronic computer that successfully ran a stored program on 21 June 1948. It was subsequently developed into the [[Manchester Mark 1]], which ran its first program in early April 1949.
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