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Where you say: "Kilburn and Williams collaboratively developed a storage device based on a cathode ray tube and capable of storing a single bit."
I think it needs emphasing that by the time this idea was used in the first stored program machine the CRT held a whole screen full of bits dancing in real time. Might not be obvious to the layman.
My authority for saying this is that I attended an open day at Manchester in the late 70's and saw a machine, albeit unpowered, and it was explained to me how it worked. I believe there was random access on a per raster line basis.
Hope this helps, Nic — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.101.65.49 ( talk) 17:44, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
I have lately scanned and uploaded a news item from the Manchester Evening News, 21/6/1978, on the 30 year anniversary of the "baby". This might be useful as a source of citations, etc. http://www.irrelevant.com/manchesterbaby/ Robirrelevant ( talk) 22:22, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
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@ Yoshi24517: This article has 9,585 characters readable prose, so per WP:LEADLENGTH, it should have a lead of one or two paragraphs. I have doubled it in length to two paragraphs. I have run a spelling check on the article, and I think we have corrected all the spelling errors. Hope this addresses all the issues. Hawkeye7 ( talk) 03:22, 2 March 2016 (UTC)