************************************************************* THE SMALL SCALE EXPERIMENTAL MACHINE ------------------------------------ Williams and Kilburn built the Small-Scale Experimental Machine at Manchester University as the smallest practicable computer to check out the CRT store later to become known as the "Williams Tube" store. The SSEM was also known familiarly as the Baby Machine. It successfully ran a factorising program written by Kilburn on the morning of 21st June 1948, believed to be the first time a stored program had ever run on an electronic computer anywhere in the world. Further development and additions to the SSEM led to a machine suitable for productive computing, referred to as the Manchester University Mark I, from mid-1949 onwards. In turn, this was developed and engineered by Ferranti Ltd to become the Ferranti Mark I and Mark I* computers. Because of the simplicity and historical importance of the SSEM, several simulators are in existence. Included here are: madm.zip Lee Wittenberg, leew@pilot.njin.net, for MSDOS wmadm.zip also Lee Wittenberg, for Windows. Both the above are from bart.kean.edu/pub/leew/ m1sim.zip By Andy Molyneux at Manchester University. This was on public display at the press launch of the SSEM Rebuild Project, 5th March 1996. CPB 16 March 1996 **************************************************************