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		leoc on Oct 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Brief, Opinionated History of the API [pdf] Also, some contemporary video of the EDSAC "workflow": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsirYCAocZk#t=1613 . The EDSAC was pipped by the Manchester "Baby" prototype, which was activated and ran a test program in 1948: http://www.computer50.org/mark1/firstprog.html .

leoc on Oct 23, 2014 [–]

Here's the whole video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4Juzn10gM . (And a short modern documentary video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76OhF3kR2MA .)

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