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: (Disclaimer: Manchester is one my Alma mata) I think some people are likely to regard labelling EDSAC as "the first practical stored-program machine to become operational" as controversial. Definitely, EDSAC was an important and innovative stored-program computer, however "practical" has a little slippery definitionally, I think. I think rewriting as an sourced opinion would work better. At the moment, it could be read as an attempt to belittle the innovation work at Manchester (though I don't think that's the intention). In my opinion both designs streams are important to future stored-program computers, with Baby leading towards distributed system-on-chip architectures whereas EDSAC leads towards CPUs [[User:RobertBurrellDonkin|RobertBurrellDonkin]] ([[User talk:RobertBurrellDonkin|talk]]) 20:01, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
::The case for this claim is made by Professor Martin Campbell-Kelly in "{{Citation | first = Campbell-Kelly | last = Martin | author-link = Martin Campbell-Kelly | editor-last = Lavington | editor-first = Simon | title = Alan Turing and his Contemporaries: Building the world's first computers | place = Swindon | publisher = British Computer Society | year =2012 | chapter = Ivory Towers and Tea Rooms | isbn = 978-1-90612-490-8 }}" [[User:TedColes|TedColes]] ([[User talk:TedColes|talk]]) 22:08, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
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