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Picture in the README is likely the Mark-I Intermediate Version, not Baby #1

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robohack opened this issue Jan 25, 2022 · 1 comment

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@robohack
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It looks like the photo in the "SSEM Computer" section of the README is the Manchester Mark-I, not the Manchester Baby.

That photo shows only about half of the Mark-I too.

If you look for any images of the replica of the Baby at the Science and Industry museum, including the one in the Wikipedia article linked to in the README, you'll see that Baby has only 7 racks.

It's not surprising that Baby and parts of Mark-I look remarkably similar since the initial Intermediate Version of the latter was apparently constructed using parts or most of the former to build upon.

See also this Wired article https://www.wired.com/2008/06/dead-media-be-5-2/, and in particular the last paragraph (as well as of course the photo the article is about).

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hrvach commented Jan 25, 2022

Thank you for pointing this out, they really do look similar! It's a bit embarrassing to have the wrong photo, so I'm really grateful for the tip. :-) 👍

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