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--[[User:TedColes|TedColes]] ([[User talk:TedColes|talk]]) 12:45, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
You bring up some good points. Honestly, I don't know enough about individual early machines to reply to all of them.
* To your first point, (Was the virtual machine described in Turing’s 1936 ‘Computable numbers’ paper[1], a stored-program machine?), no, a Turning machine can be implemented with a paper tape system or even [http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/510/whatisanalg.html toilet paper]. No electronic storage is necessary.
* ''Turing’s 1946 [[Automatic Computing Engine]] was undoubtedly a stored–program computer design in the modern sense.'' - *Nod*. [http://www.alanturing.net/turing_archive/archive/infopages/london1st.html This] says it was the 3rd stored program computer in Britain. [[User:Raul654|Raul654]] ([[User talk:Raul654|talk]]) 15:44, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
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