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Reviewer: Indrian (talk · contribs) 23:36, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Let's keep this party going. Review to follow. Indrian (talk) 23:36, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Okay, with the holidays finally over I can now turn my attention to this review. Its a very short article -- though certainly as complete as the sources allow -- so it did not require many fixes. I went ahead and tweaked some of the grammar myself, leaving exactly one factual issue that I want to leave to the nominator. The article currently states in two places that the EDSAC was "the first computer to have memory that could be read from or written to." Leaving aside the question of whether the Manchester Mark 1 predated EDSAC (it was apparently operational by April 1949, but may not have run its first program until June), it was definitely preceded by that computer's prototype, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine, which could not do anything particularly useful, but ran its first program in June 1948. Therefore this language needs to be tweaked.

And that's it. I'll go ahead and put this  On hold while this one tiny detail is resolved. Indrian (talk) 19:45, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

@Indrian: tweaked to be "one of the" first stored-program computers, with memory that could be read and written - it's clearly not the first, no matter what the source said. Though, if this one's short, cathode ray tube amusement device is tiny. --PresN 20:14, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

@PresN:Looks good. And with that, I will go ahead and promote. Indrian (talk) 20:29, 6 January 2016 (UTC)