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==Early von Neumann-architecture computers== The ''First Draft'' described a design that was used by many universities and corporations to construct their computers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ias.edu/people/vonneumann/ecp/ |title=Electronic Computer Project |date=September 11, 2009 |publisher=[[Institute for Advanced Study]] |access-date=2011-05-26}}</ref> Among these various computers, only ILLIAC and ORDVAC had compatible instruction sets. * [[APEXC|ARC2]] ([[Birkbeck, University of London]]) officially came online on May 12, 1948.<ref name="birkbeck">{{cite journal |author-last1=Campbell-Kelly |author-first1=Martin |title=The Development of Computer Programming in Britain (1945 to 1955) |journal=IEEE Annals of the History of Computing |date=April 1982 |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=121β139 |doi=10.1109/MAHC.1982.10016|s2cid=14861159 }}</ref> * [[Manchester Baby]] ([[Victoria University of Manchester]], England) made its first successful run of a stored program on June 21, 1948. * [[EDSAC]] ([[University of Cambridge]], England) was the first practical stored-program electronic computer (May 1949) * [[Manchester Mark 1]] ([[University of Manchester]], England) Developed from the Baby (June 1949) * [[CSIRAC]] ([[Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation|Council for Scientific and Industrial Research]]) Australia (November 1949) * [[MESM]] at the [[Kiev Institute of Electrotechnology]] in [[Kyiv|Kiev]], [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]] (November 1950) * [[EDVAC]] ([[Ballistic Research Laboratory]], Computing Laboratory at [[Aberdeen Proving Ground]] 1951) * [[IAS machine]] at [[Institute for Advanced Study]] (1951) * [[ORDVAC]] (University of Illinois) at [[Aberdeen Proving Ground]], Maryland (completed November 1951)<ref>{{citation |author-first=James E. |author-last=Robertson |title=Illiac Design Techniques |publisher=report number UIUCDCS-R-1955β146, Digital Computer Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |date=1955}}.</ref> * [[MANIAC I]] at [[Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory]] (March 1952) * [[ILLIAC]] at the [[University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign|University of Illinois]], (September 1952) * [[BESM|BESM-1]] in Moscow (1952) * [[AVIDAC]] at [[Argonne National Laboratory]] (1953) * [[ORACLE (computer)|ORACLE]] at [[Oak Ridge National Laboratory]] (June 1953) * [[BESK]] in Stockholm (1953) * [[JOHNNIAC]] at [[RAND Corporation]] (January 1954) * [[DASK]] in Denmark (1955) * [[WEIZAC]] at the [[Weizmann Institute of Science]] in [[Rehovot]], Israel (1955) * [[PERM (computer)|PERM]] in Munich (1956) * [[SILLIAC]] in Sydney (1956)
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