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Description
NewMan,
Williams and his team finish a prototype called the Manchester Mark
I. This machine has a new type of memory composed of cathode vacuum
tubes stroing one bit of information on a crt illuminating a point
on the screen that stays on. To read out the result it suffices to
measure the voltage with a electrode placed at the other side of the
sdreen! The Mark I thus has a memory of 1024 bits in one single tube.
The Mark I was programmed binary from a programme stored in memoryand
the results were read on another 'binary' tube. This machine was one
of the first binary computers.
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