The Manchester Baby was the first stored-program computer

Re:The Manchester Baby was the first stored-program computer by blattimwind on Friday June 22, 2018 @08:27AM (#17373407)

This seems to me like a far more salient distinction than how the program is stored.

Instruction pointer and explicit branching.

The Z3 is still (in a theoretical sense) Turing-complete, even without branching instructions (exponential path construction).

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Re:The Manchester Baby was the first stored-program computer by Squonk42 on Friday June 22, 2018 @08:45AM (#17373512)

Extract from http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/inst/ag-ki/rojas_home/documents/...

"We can therefore say that, from an abstract theoretical perspective, the computing model of the Z3 is equivalent to the computing model of today's computers. From a practical perspective, and in the way the Z3 was really programmed, it was not equivalent to modern computers."

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