“THE BABY” turns 60 this year. Amusing? Isn’t it? Yes, even if it turns thousands of years it remains “THE BABY”; for “THE BABY” is not a living creature… rather it is a man made machine. A machine that today you know as the computers which were conceptualized by this so called “THE BABY”. In fact ‘THE BABY” is known as the first actual digital computer.
Thought its name was “THE BABY”, it was never a baby, except in efficiency. Built in 1948 at Manchester in England this machine was heavier than the hundred of the computers of this age. It used thousand of the valves. While in operation it consumed one third of the total power of the town. It occupies the space more than two rooms.
That was the time of Second World War. “THE BABY” was being built under high security since it was the cutting edge technology of that time. In spite of all these VIP like treatments; it had a RAM of mere 128 bytes. It could only subtract not even multiplication or addition.
Today we are living in the era of super computer still the role of “THE BABY” in the development in the mankind can not be ignored. Like the invention of the Fire “THE BABY” also changed the course of the actions of human race.
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