The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ... And then, on June 21, 1948, a program stored in an electronic memory was executed successfully for the first time anywhere in the world ...

Strachey, a schoolmaster and pioneering computer ... its drum memory could store several hundred words, which was substantial for the era. By the summer of 1952, Strachey's draughts program ...

On that day 65 years ago, a proof-of-concept computer called ... ran the first "program" retrieved not from paper tape or hard-set switches, but from random-access memory. Designed by Frederic ...