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Re:The Manchester Baby was the first stored-program computer by walshemj on Friday June 22, 2018 @09:10AM (#17373662)
No I worked with computers from the 70's (PDP's) and you did load the program into memory.

You might on rare occasions load a bootstrap program into memory from paper tape or even by hand from the console tho.

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