<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Tom</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Two bounds for your search. "Stored Program" is not in the 1950 IRE Standard on Computer Terms:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><h3 style="font-size: 1.085em; line-height: 1.3; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.proxygw.wrlc.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1701474&contentType=Journals+%26+Magazines&ranges%3D1951_1956_p_Publication_Year%26matchBoolean%3Dtrue%26searchField%3DSearch_All%26queryText%3D%28p_Title%3Acomputer+terms%29" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; ">Standards on Electronic Computers: Definitions of<span class="snippet" style="color: rgb(227, 114, 34); ">Terms</span>, 1950</a></h3><a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.proxygw.wrlc.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=10933" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Proceedings of the IRE </a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "></span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">Volume: 39 ,</span><a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.proxygw.wrlc.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=35844" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> Issue: 3 </a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "></span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">Digital Object Identifier: </span><a href="http://dx.doi.org.proxygw.wrlc.org/10.1109/JRPROC.1951.231840" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">10.1109/JRPROC.1951.231840 </a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "></span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">Publication Year: 1951 , Page(s): 271 - 277</span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#e37222"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-transform: uppercase;"><b><br></b></span></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="type" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(227, 114, 34); padding-right: 1em; text-transform: uppercase; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-transform: uppercase; ">But it is used in the 1953 IRE article on programming. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-transform: uppercase; "><br></span></div><h3 style="font-size: 1.085em; line-height: 1.3; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.proxygw.wrlc.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4051188&contentType=Journals+%26+Magazines&sortType%3Dasc_p_Publication_Year%26ranges%3D1953_1958_p_Publication_Year%26matchBoolean%3Dtrue%26searchField%3DSearch_All%26queryText%3D%28.QT.stored+program.QT.%29" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; ">Fundamentals of Digital Computer Programming</a></h3><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">Thomas, W.H.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.proxygw.wrlc.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=10933" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Proceedings of the IRE </a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "></span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">Volume: 41 ,</span><a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.proxygw.wrlc.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=4051180" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> Issue: 10 </a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "></span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">Digital Object Identifier: </span><a href="http://dx.doi.org.proxygw.wrlc.org/10.1109/JRPROC.1953.274275" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">10.1109/JRPROC.1953.274275 </a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "></span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">Publication Year: 1953 , Page(s): 1245 - 1249</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; "><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; text-transform: uppercase; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#e37222"> </font>I SHOULD NOTE THAT IT IS NOT USED IN THE COMPANION 1953 article on the IBM 701.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; text-transform: uppercase; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; text-transform: uppercase; ">David</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(227, 114, 34); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; text-transform: uppercase; "><b><br></b></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br></span></font><div>
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<br><div><div>On Apr 2, 2012, at 4:34 PM, Thomas Haigh wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hello everyone,<br><br>I have a query related to a project I am working on concerning the<br>conversion of ENIAC to stored program control in 1948, initially to run the<br>first computerized Monte Carlo calculations. All this took place prior to<br>the first operation of the Manchester Baby. That makes the question of what<br>one means by "stored program" a very interesting one.<br><br>This question was much discussed in the early days of the history of<br>computing (1970s, early 1980s). I am starting to dig back into primary<br>sources for early use of the phrases "stored program" and "stored program<br>concept" to get a better idea of how these terms were used in the<br>1940s/early 1950s and what people thought they meant at the time. <br><br>To clarify, almost everyone who has written about this cites the 1945 "First<br>Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" as the initial dissemination of the stored<br>program concept although there has been considerable debate as to the source<br>of the ideas contained therein. However that document does not contain the<br>phase "stored program." Or indeed use the word "program" in the body of the<br>text. Or, remarkably, "EDVAC." "Stored" shows up a few times, though less<br>frequently than "remembered." So, ignoring for the moment the relationship<br>of the report to later definitions of the concept, we can agree that it was<br>not the source of the phrase. The most obvious summary of the idea using the<br>report's own terminology would be "remembered instruction device" rather<br>than "stored program computer." <br><br>I had thought about the 1946 Moore School lectures as a possible vector for<br>the phase "stored program" as well as the concept. The phrase shows up many<br>times in the Moore School lectures book but so far I have spotted it only in<br>the 1980s editorial material rather than in the original lecture summaries. <br><br>By 1954 "stored program computer" is showing up without explanation or<br>citation required in the description of the IBM 650 published in the<br>inaugural issue of Journal of the ACM. It is not particularly common in the<br>ACM DL material for the rest of the decade ("automatic computer" and<br>"digital computer" are more prevalent) but continues to pop up occasionally.<br>The best the OED can do is 1957, which is even later.<br><br>So, any thoughts on who came up with this phrase and when? I'm planning to<br>dig deeper in search of early usage, for example into the 1950 "High-Speed<br>Computing Devices" ERA book and some of the other CBI reprints from the<br>1940s, but it occurred to me that someone on the list might already know the<br>answer to the question.<br><br>Tom<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>This email is relayed from <a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org">members@sigcis.org</a>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at <a href="http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/">http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/</a> and you can change your subscription options at <a href="http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members">http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>