Talk:Tom Kilburn

Emphasise CRT storage capacity?
Where you say: "Kilburn and Williams collaboratively developed a storage device based on a cathode ray tube and capable of storing a single bit."

I think it needs emphasing that by the time this idea was used in the first stored program machine the CRT held a whole screen full of bits dancing in real time. Might not be obvious to the layman.

My authority for saying this is that I attended an open day at Manchester in the late 70's and saw a machine, albeit unpowered, and it was explained to me how it worked. I believe there was random access on a per raster line basis.

Hope this helps, Nic — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.101.65.49 (talk) 17:44, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

News item from 1978
I have lately scanned and uploaded a news item from the Manchester Evening News, 21/6/1978, on the 30 year anniversary of the "baby". This might be useful as a source of citations, etc. http://www.irrelevant.com/manchesterbaby/ Robirrelevant (talk) 22:22, 15 October 2012 (UTC)