Who developed the earliest stored-program computers, that was funded and purchased from Ferranti in the UK instead?
UTEC UTEC was a computer built at the University of Toronto (UofT) in the early 1950s. It was one of the first working computers in the world, although only built in a prototype form while awaiting funding for expansion into a full-scale version. This funding was eventually used to purchase a surplus Manchester Mark 1 from Ferranti in the UK instead, and UTEC quickly disappeared. The name was an acronym for "University of Toronto Electronic Computer".
SEAC (computer) SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer" or Standards Electronic Automatic Computer") was a first-generation electronic computer, built in 1950 by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards (NBS) and was initially called the "National Bureau of Standards Interim Computer", because it was a small-scale computer designed to be built quickly and put into operation while the NBS waited for more powerful computers to be completed (the DYSEAC). The team that developed SEAC was organized by Samuel N. Alexander. SEAC was demonstrated in April 1950 and in May 1950 it went into full production, making it the first fully functional stored-program electronic computer in the US.