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The University of Manchester Universal High-Speed Digital Computing Machine

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THE electronic computing machine described here has been developed in the Electrical Engineering Laboratories at the University of Manchester under the general direction of Prof. F. C. Williams, and with the active assistance of the Telecommunications Research Establishment, Malvern.

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KILBURN , T. The University of Manchester Universal High-Speed Digital Computing Machine. Nature 164, 684–687 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164684a0

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