Geoff Tootill | |
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| Born | 4 March 1922 Chadderton, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 26 October 2017 (aged 95) |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge[1] |
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Geoffrey ("Geoff") Colin Tootill (4 March 1922 – 26 October 2017)[3] was an electronic engineer and computer scientist who worked in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Manchester with Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn developing the Manchester Baby, "the world's first wholly electronic stored-program computer".[4][1][5][6][2][7][8]
- ^ a b c Anon (2017). "Voices of Science: Geoff Tootill". Bl.uk. British Library.
- ^ a b c Computing Heritage (2013) Manchester Baby: world's first stored program computer on YouTube
- ^ Campbell-Kelly, Martin (8 November 2017). "Geoff Tootill obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ Anon (2008). "Geoff Tootill: Digital 60". Curation.cs.manchester.ac.uk.
- ^ Anon (2009). "Oral history of British science". Sounds.bl.uk. British Library. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
- ^ Hollingdale, S. H., & Tootill, G. C. (1967). Electronic computers, Harmondsworth, Mddx.: Penguin Books. ASIN B000XFPPMA
- ^ Webb, Lynette (2013). ""You've come a long way, Baby": remembering the world's first stored program computer". Googleblog.blogspot.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 September 2015.
- ^ Taylor, Paul (2010). "Baby changed the world: 60 years since the birth of the modern computer in Manchester". Manchester Evening News. Manchester.
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