Question: Who developed the earliest stored-program computers, that was funded and purchased from Ferranti in the UK instead?
Context: The Manchester computers were an innovative series of stored-program electronic computers developed during the 30-year period between 1947 and 1977 by a small team at the University of Manchester, under the leadership of Tom Kilburn.  They included the world's first stored-program computer, the world's first transistorised computer, and what was the world's fastest computer at the time of its inauguration in 1962. Mary Lee Woods (born 12 March 1924) is an English mathematician and computer programmer who worked in a team that developed programs in the School of Computer Science, University of Manchester Mark 1, Ferranti Mark 1 and Mark 1 Star computers.  She met and married Conway Berners-Lee while working at Ferranti.  Sir Tim Berners-Lee is one of their children. The Pilot ACE was one of the first computers built in the United Kingdom at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the early 1950s.  It was also one of the earliest stored-program computers, joining other UK designs like the Manchester Mark 1 and EDSAC of the same era.  The design is one of the earliest general computers designed by Alan Turing, although he left NPL before it was completed. The Ferranti Market Research Terminal (MRT) was, arguably, the world’s first application-specific handheld computer.  It was designed specifically for the market research sector as a means to augment the regular clipboard schemes that, at the time, were common-place, in social and market research.  The Ferranti Market Research Terminal (MRT) is also of historical significance to the computing industry since it marked the last original computer design from Ferranti, a long established business (started 1882) that had risen to fame through a collaboration Manchester University to produce the "Mark 1", the world’s first commercial computer and later with Cambridge University producing the "Atlas" and "Titan" computers which, at their peak, held around 25% of the computing market. UNIVAC is the name of a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation.  Later the name was applied to a division of the Remington Rand company and successor organizations.  UNIVAC is an acronym for UNIVersal Automatic Computer. Ferranti or Ferranti International plc was a UK electrical engineering and equipment firm that operated for over a century from 1885 until it went bankrupt in 1993 (the Belgian subsidiary lives on as Ferranti Computer Systems and is now part of the Nijkerk Holding).  Known primarily for defence electronics, the company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. OXO or Noughts and Crosses is a video game developed by A S Douglas in 1952 for the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) computer, which simulates a game of noughts and crosses.  It was one of the first games developed in the early history of video games.  Douglas programmed the game as part of a thesis on human-computer interaction for the University of Cambridge.  The EDSAC was one of the first stored-program computers, with memory that could be read from or written to, and had three small cathode ray tube screens to display the state of the memory; Douglas re-purposed one screen to demonstrate portraying other information to the user, such as the state of a noughts and crosses game.  After the game served its purpose, it was discarded on the original hardware but later successfully reconstructed.  "OXO", along with a draughts game by Christopher Strachey completed around the same time, is one of the earliest known games to display visuals on an electronic screen.  Under some definitions, it thus may qualify as the first video game, though other definitions exclude it due to its lack of moving or real-time updating graphics. 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". The Manchester Mark 1 was one of the earliest stored-program computers, developed at the Victoria University of Manchester from the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) or "Baby" (operational in June 1948).  It was also called the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine, or MADM.  Work began in August 1948, and the first version was operational by April 1949; a program written to search for Mersenne primes ran error-free for nine hours on the night of 16/17 June 1949. Ferranti-Packard Ltd. was the Canadian division of Ferranti's global manufacturing empire, formed by the 1958 merger of Ferranti Electric and Packard Electric.  For several years in the post-war era, the company underwent dramatic expansion and repeatedly almost became a major computer supplier, but eventually shed various divisions and returned to becoming an electrical grid supplier once again.  The company was purchased in 1998 by the Austrian company, VA TECH.  On July 23, 2005 Siemens PTD purchased VA Tech’s Transmission and Distribution Division (T&D) group for transformers and switchgear.
Answer: Victoria University of Manchester