Moving Targets: Elliott-Automation and the Dawn of the Computer Age in Britain, 1947 – 67Springer Science & Business Media, 19 мая 2011 г. - Всего страниц: 710 Moving Targets charts the gradual take-up of Information Technology in Britain, as seen through the eyes of one innovative company – Elliott-Automation – and remembered by those who worked for that company. The story touches on the strategic, technical and economic history of the 1950s and 1960s, through such themes as: secret computers built for the Admiralty and for GCHQ at Elliott’s Borehamwood Laboratories; the changing balance between analogue and digital techniques; the challenges of commercial data processing and the marketing arrangement between Elliott and NCR; the introduction of low-cost, reliable computers and their application to industrial control and to avionics; the growing importance of software and the Elliott Algol compiler; and the market rivalry between the Elliotts and other British computer manufacturers such as English Electric and Ferranti Ltd. Simon Lavington, M.Sc., Ph.D., FIEE, FBCS, is emeritus professor of Computer Science at the University of Essex and the author of many publications. He retired in 2002 and is a committee member of the BCS Computer Conservation Society. |
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The Secret Digit | 79 |
Analogue Expertise | 113 |
NRDC and the Market | 147 |
Process Control and Automation The Bagrit Vision | 193 |
Automation The Machines and the Applications | 223 |
Software and Applications at Borehamwood | 259 |
Appendix 2
Technical Details of the Elliott Nicholas Computer | 515 |
Appendix 3
Technical Details of the Elliott 400 Series Computers | 531 |
Appendix 4
Technical Details of the Elliott 800 Series and 503 Computers | 555 |
Appendix 5
Technical Details of the Elliott 502 Computer | 569 |
Appendix 6
Technical Details of Elliott 900 Series Computers | 579 |
Appendix 7
Technical Details of the Elliott 4100 Series Computers | 597 |
Appendix 8
Elliott Digital Computer Deliveries and Costs | 611 |
Appendix 9
Supplementary Avionics Details | 637 |
NCR the 405 and Commercial Data Processing | 309 |
Evolution of Elliott Computer Architectures | 337 |
EARS and Aerials Elliotts Radar Achievements 19501986
By John Kinnear and Elizabeth Laverick | 371 |
Airborne Computing System Developments at ElliottAutomation 19581988
A personal account By Peter Hearne 2006 | 397 |
Mergers Takeovers and Dispersals | 435 |
The End of the Line | 469 |
Appendix 1
Technical Details of the Elliott 152 and 153 | 505 |
Appendix 10
Historical Notes on Early British and NonBritish Computers | 655 |
Appendix 11
ElliottAutomation Group Structure and Factories in 1965 | 671 |
Bibliography | 679 |
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