Computer

RESURRECTION

The Bulletin of the Computer Conservation Society

ISSN 0958-7403

 

Number 1

May 1990

Comment Ewart Willey, Chairman
Society news Tony Sale, Secretary
Working Parties and restoration work  
Computer Conservation Society - birth... Nicholas Enticknap, Editor of Resurrection
....and christening  
Computer Conservation and Curatorship Doron Swade, Curator of Computing, Science Museum
ICL and the British computer industry Dr Martin Campbell-Kelly, Chairman Software Working Party
Making Pegasus Fly John Cooper, Chairman Pegasus Working Party
The Young Person's Guide to ... The PDP-8 Dr Adrian Johnstone, Chairman DEC Working Party
Skills and Objects Wanted  
 

Number 2

Autumn 1990

Comment Nicholas Enticknap, Editor
Society news Tony Sale, Secretary
The thinking behind EDSAC Maurice Wilkes
Designing a computer for data processing John Pinkerton
From Cathode Ray Tube to Ferranti Mark I Tom Kilburn
Evolution of the ACE Donald Davies
ACE hardware David Clayden
Working party reports  
Letters to the editor  
Skills and Objects Wanted  
 

Number 3

Spring 1991

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor
Society News Tony Sale, Secretary
Open Day and Evening Reception Nicholas Enticknap, Editor
A gentle introduction to 194Os electronics Anthony Sale
The Young person's Guide to The Elliott 8O3B Adrian Johnstone
Miscellany Nicholas Enticknap, Editor
Working Party Reports  
 

Number 4

Summer 1992

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor
Guest Opinion Director, The National Museum of Science and Industry
Society News Tony Sale, Secretary
The early days of Algol Nicholas Enticknap and Pat Woodroffe
The influence of Alan Blumlein on early computers Ted Newman
The pre-history of the Digital Equipment Corporation Adrian Johnstone
Early computers at Manchester University  
Miscellany  
Working Party Reports  
 

Number 5

Spring 1993

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor
Guest Opinion Maurice Wilkes
Society News Tony Sale, Secretary
The Williams Tube Revisited Tony Sale
Andrew Booth's Computers at Birkbeck College Andrew Collin
The Origins of Packet Switching Derek Barber
Altair and After: the Original PC Revolution Robin Shirley
Letters to the Editor  
Working Party Reports  
 

Number 6

Summer 1993

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor
Guest Editorial Graham Morris, Chairman
The Society's Archives Harold Gearing, Archivist
40 Years of the Elliott 401 Tony Sale
The Enigma of Bletchley Park  
Recollections of the Elliott 400 series Laurence Clarke
Thirty Years of Databases Peter King
A Pioneer Initiative in School Computing Peter Excell
Letters to the Editor  
 

Number 7

Autumn 1993

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor
Guest Editorial Sandy Douglas, Committee member
Society news Tony Sale, Secretary
The CCS and the Science Museum - what now? Doron Swade
Obituary: John Cooper Chris Burton
The Problems of Software Conservation Doron Swade
George Alfred Julius and his Automatic Totalisator Charles Norrie
The design of Pegasus Ian Merry
Working Party Reports  
Letters to the Editor  
 

Number 8

Winter 1993

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor 
Guest Editorial Peter Hall, Chairman, North West Branch 
The CCS branches out Dan Hayton, Treasurer 
Obituary: Ted Newman  
Obituary: Bernard Swann Hugh McGregor Ross 
Early computer development at NPL Donald Davies 
The coming of mix and match hardware Robin Shirley  
NRDC's role in the early British computer industry John Crawley 
Working Party Reports  
Letters to the Editor  
 

Number 9

Spring 1994

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor
Guest Editorial Brian Oakley 
Society News Tony Sale, Secretary 
Determining the Age of a Pegasus Chris Burton 
Memories of the Pilot Ace Ted Newman 
Russian computing: back from Siberia Doron Swade 
After the Elliott 400 Series Hugh McGregor Ross 
Working Party Reports  
 

Number 10

Summer 1994

Society News Tony Sale, Secretary  
Evolution of the Ace drum system Fred Osborne  
Memories of the Manchester Mark I Frank Sumner 
Ferranti in the 1950s Charlie Portman 
Very early computer music Donald Davies 
Obituary: John Gray Doron Swade 
Book Review - the Leo story  
Letters to the Editor  
Letters Extra - on identifying Pegasi  
Working Party Reports  
 

Number 11

Winter 1994

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor 
Guest Editorial Andrew St Johnston 
Society News Tony Sale, Secretary 
Progress at Bletchley Park Chris Burton 
Memories of the Zebra Don Hunter 
Evolution of the Powers Samas PCC drum John Bauldreay 
British Computer Industry -
   Success Or Failure?
Nicholas Enticknap 
Letters to the Editor  
Working Party Reports  
 

Number 12

Summer 1995

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor  
Guest Editorial Frank Sumner  
Society News Tony Sale, Secretary  
Determining the Age of the
   Manchester Pegasus
Ken Turner  
The Phillips Economic Computer Doron Swade  
From Torsional Mode Delay Lines to DAP Gordon G Scarrott  
Early Computer Use by Structural
   Engineers
Doug Brewster  
Historic Computer Music Chris Burton  
Letters to the Editor  
Working Party Reports  
 

Number 13

Autumn 1995

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor  
News Round-up  
The Transition from Valves to Transistors RL Grimsdale  
Information Engineering:
   Exactly Where Are We?
Gordon G Scarrott  
How We Made Atlas Useable David Howarth  
Letters to the Editor  
 

Number 14

Winter 1995/96

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor  
News Round-up  
Piece of Babbage History Sold Doron Swade  
Deuce - its life and times Jeremy Walker  
Telephone Traffic and Other Hobbies Don Hunter  
Experiences with Pegasus Donald Kershaw  
Letters to the Editor  
 

Number 15

Summer 1996

News Round-up  
Society Activity Chris Burton  
Systems Analysis for Business Applications Frank Land  
System Design - Then and Now John Aris  
Linear Programming and all that Robin Judd  
Letters to the Editor  
 

Number 16

Christmas 1996

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor  
News Round-up  
Anniversaries in 1997  
Evolution of the Zebra Willem van der Poel  
How the ICT 1900 Series Evolved Hugh Devonald and Derek Eldridge  
Early Computer Developments at EMI Ron Clayden  
Book Reviews Nicholas Enticknap, Editor  
Society Activity  
 

Number 17

Spring 1997

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor  
News Round-up  
What Might Have Been Maurice Richardson  
The Prehistory of the 1900 Series Arthur Humphreys  
Mathematics and Software at Leo Computers John Gosden  
Obituary: Ernest Lenaerts  
Obituary: Gordon Scarrott  
Society Activity  
 

Number 18

Autumn 1997

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor
News Round-up  
The KDF9 Computer - 30 Years OnBob Beard
The Dawn of Chinese ComputingQuiangnan Sun
The Technological Evolution of the 1900 RangeBrian Procter
Historical Jottings  
Society Activity  
Letters to the Editor  
 

Number 19

Spring 1998

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor
News Round-up  
CCS Collection Policy  
The Unicom ProjectPeter Hall
Early Chinese ComputersQuiangnan Sun
Keeping the 1900 Competitive Virgilio Pasquali
Obituary: John PinkertonDavid Caminer
Book Reviews  
Society Activity  
Bombe Rebuild Project - Appeal for Help  
Letters to the Editor  
 

Number 20

Summer 1998

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor  
News Round-up  
CCS Collection Policy  
Computing's Golden Jubilee Nicholas Enticknap  
The Original Original Program Geoff Tootill  
The Thinking Behind the IBM 360 Peter Titman  
The Argus Computer and Process Control Maurice Gribble  
Obituary: Peter Hunt  
Society Activity  
 

Number 21

spring 1999

News Round-up
The Spread Committee Sir John Fairclough  
The ICT 1301 Series Hamish Carmichael  
Developing Software for the 1900 Peter Hunt  
More on the EMI Business Machine Stewart Hine  
CCS Collection Policy  
Society Activity  
Bombe Rebuild Project - Appeal for More Help  
 

Number 22

Summer 1999

News Round-up
Cambridge's Golden Jubilee Nicholas Enticknap  
BTM's First Steps Into Computing Raymond 'Dickie' Bird  
Getting Stevenage up to Speed Mike Forrest  
Obituary: Charlie Portman Chris Burton  
Letters to the Editor  
Society Activity  
 

Number 23

New Year 2000

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap  
News Round-up  
The BTM Calculators Lorin Knight  
IBM 360 Architecture and Microprogramming Ivor Jones  
IBM 360 input and output Michael Flinders  
Letters to the Editor  
Computing anniversaries in 2000  
Society Activity  
 

Number 24

Autumn 2000

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap  
News Round-up  
Recollections of Early Vacuum Tube Circuits Maurice Wilkes  
Obituary: John Grover  
In the Footsteps of the Conqueror Nicholas Enticknap  
Society Activity  
Impact Line Printers - an ICL Perspective Tony Wix  
Letters to the Editor  
 

Number 25

Summer 2001

News Round-up
How Should We Be Talking To You? Hamish Carmichael  
Tribute to Tom Kilburn  
Obituary: Derek Milledge George Felton  
Obituary: Bill Elliott Hugh McGregor Ross  
Ferranti's London Computer Centre Hugh McGregor Ross  
Dawn of the Data Processing Age Hamish Carmichael  
Mil-DAP Resurrection Project Brian M Russell  
Society Activity  
Letters to the Editor  
 

Number 26

Autumn 2001

News Round-up
Assertions: A Personal Perspective Tony Hoare  
Keeping Old Warhorses in Action Stuart Fyfe  
Punched Cards Are Not Dead Yet Hamish Carmichael  
Zuse Z3 replica is operational Martin Campbell-Kelly  
In Memoriam ICL Hamish Carmichael  
CCS Collection Policy  
Society Activity  
Letters to the Editor  
 

Number 27

Spring 2002

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap  
News Round-up  
Society Activity  
Nicholas, the Forgotten Elliott Project Ed Hersom  
Program Verification and Semantics: Early Work Teresa Numerico and Jonathan Bowen  
Uses of the Science Museum Pegasus Doug Brewster  
Cost-justifying Computers: Early Thinking Hugh McGregor Ross  
CCS Collection Policy  
Anniversaries in 2002  
 

Number 28

Summer 2002

News Round-up
Leo and the Computer Revolution: part one David Caminer  
First steps in computing at the Prudential Ewart Willey  
Two Early Pegasus Computers in Use Godfrey N Lance  
Letters to the Editor  
Help Wanted  
CCS Collection Policy  
 

Number 29

Winter 2002

News Round-up
Society Activity  
Leo and the Computer Revolution: part two David Caminer  
The BCL Molecular 18 Kevin Murrell  
CCS Web site information  
Pegasus at Kodak Ann Moffatt  
Letters to the Editor  
 

Number 30

Spring 2003

Generous BCS Support for
   Bombe Rebuild Project
Ernest Morris, Chairman  
AGM  
News Round-up  
Society Activity  
CCS Collection Policy  
DAP snippets Brian M Russell  
British Computer Corporation
   - a 1956 Venture
Hugh McGregor Ross  
Edsger Dijkstra remembered Brian Shearing  
Deciphering Ancient Floppy Discs Kevin Murrell  
The ICL Archive Hamish Carmichael  
 

Number 31

Autumn 2003

News Round-Up  
Society Activity  
CCS Collection Policy  
Timesharing History: a Researcher's Findings John Deane  
From Cog Wheels to Turbo Pascal Don Hunter  
Our Computer Heritage  
Family Ties: the DEC PDP-11 Kevin Murrell  
Recollections of the Monrobot Norma Edwins  
Digitising the Algol Bulletin Brian Wichmann  
What challenges have you overcome? Ernest Morris  
Letters to the Editor  
 

Number 32

New Year 2004

News Round-Up  
Society Activity  
Inmos and the Transputer (part 1)Iann Barron
The Shocking Truth about Babbage
    and his Calculating Engines
Doron Swade
Timesharing History: the UK StoryAlan Thomson
Timesharing History: an UpdateJohn Deane
Letters to the Editor  
CCS Collection Policy  
 

Number 33

Spring 2004

News Round-Up  
Society Activity  
Inmos and the Transputer (part 2)Iann Barron
A Management Perspective on OrionPeter Hall
Before Moore's LawBrian Wichmann
Obituary: John GosdenDavid Caminer
Letters to the Editor  
 

Number 34

Spring 2005

News Round-Up  
Society Activity  
Early Insurance Broking Applications Ernest Morris  
Appeal for Help Hamish Carmichael  
Pericles - A Pioneering Online Service Hamish Carmichael  
Trojan Horses and National Champions Paul Gannon  
Letters to the Editor  
 

Number 35

Summer 2005

Editorial  
News Round-Up  
Society Activity  
How British Computer Industry
   Muddled Through
Peter Hall
Why Did the European Computer
   Industry Fail?
Peter Hall
ICL and Europe Virgilio Pasquali
Why Collaboration Rarely Succeeded David Talbot
Breaking the Mould Reay Atkinson
Letters to the Editor  
 

Number 36

Autumn 2005

Society Activity  
Obituary: Harold Gearing  
Finding the Necessity for Invention Hugh McGregor Ross
Leo II and the Model T Ford Frank Land
Problem Solving with George 3 Today Brian Spoor
How the BCS Was Born Peter Barnes
Book Review  
Letters to the Editor  
 

Number 37

Spring 2006

News Round-Up  
Society Activity  
The Zuse Computers Raśl Rojas
Information Processing in the 19th Century Martin Campbell-Kelly
Making Money While the World Slept Gerald Everitt
Letters to the Editor  
Pictures of the Past  
 

Number 38

Summer 2006

News Round-Up  
Society Activity  
Creating Computer Courses Paul Samet
Getting the Job Done George Felton
Role of the National Computing Centre David Firnberg
Creating a Sane Professional Body John Ivinson
Pictures of the Past  
 

Number 39

New Year 2007

Editorial  
News Round-Up  
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing  
Society Activity  
The Mainframe Years in the Computer Press Chris Hipwell
Computing Before the Computer Jane Wess
Eighteenth Century Computers Mary Croarken
 

Number 40

Summer 2007

Editorial Nicholas Enticknap
News Round-Up  
Society Activity  
Production Control at Letchworth Hamish Carmichael
June - a Home-Grown Operating System Andrew Colin
Memories of the Elliott 803B Graham Phillips
Letters to the Editor  
 

Number 41

Autumn 2007

News Round-Up  
Society Activity  
Computer Development in Cambridge 1937-80 Maurice Wilkes
Early Computer Production at Elliotts Laurence Clarke
The Origins of Fortran Peter Crouch
Obituary: Dina St Johnston Simon Lavington
Letters to the Editor  
 

Number 42

Spring 2008

Valediction Nicholas Enticknap
Note by the Chairman David Hartley
John Harper FBCS  
News Round-Up  
Society Activity  
Mathematician and Nurse to a Pegasus Peter Barnes
Scapa - A System for Post Colonial Agriculture Colin Leakey
Elliott Computers Simon Lavington
Letters to the Editor  
BCS@50 in pictures  
 

Number 43

Summer 2008

Greetings! Dik Leatherdale
Chairman’s Report for 2007-08 David Hartley
News Round-Up  
Society Activity  
Pioneer Profiles - Christopher Strachey David Barron
Computers at Metrovick :
   The MV950 and AEI 1010
Ron Foulkes
Beacon 1963-7 : A System Design
   Ahead of its Time
Michael Knight
The Ghost of KDF9 Brian Wichmann
Letters to the Editor  
Obituary: David Caminer Frank Land;
Obituary: Professor Hilary Kahn Dik Leatherdale
 

Number 44

Autumn 2008

The Editor Grovels Dik Leatherdale
News Round-Up  
Society Activity  
Pioneer Profiles - Donald Davies Martin Campbell-Kelly
Titan - the Poor Man’s Atlas? David Hartley
The Ferranti Sirius at Monash University Barbara Ainsworth
You Can Become a Computer Programmer! Dik Leatherdale
Letters to the Editor  
The AEI 1010 - an Additional Note Ron Foulkes
 

Number 45

Winter 2008/9

Doron Swade MBE David Hartley and Dik Leatherdale
Editor’s Remarks Dik Leatherdale
News Round-Up  
Society Activity  
Pioneer Profiles - Tony Brooker Brian Napper
Some CAFS Applications Hamish Carmichael & Martin Wright
Where did it all go? Simon Lavington
Obituary: F.J. Murray Laver Reay Atkinson
You Can Become a Computer Programmer! Dik Leatherdale
 

Number 46

Spring 2009

IMechE Engineering Heritage Award for the Bombe David Hartley & Dik Leatherdale
Editor’s Remarks Dik Leatherdale
News Round-Up  
Society Activity  
Pioneer Profiles - Stan Gill David Barron
Some More CAFS Applications Hamish Carmichael & Martin Wright
Preserving an ICT 1301 Rod Brown
Kings College London Computing Museum Richard E. Overill & Jantje A. M. Silomon
The Prime of Life Simon Lavington collection
Obituary: Harry Johnson Hugh McGregor Ross
Obituary: Brian Napper Dik Leatherdale
 

Number 47

Summer 2009

Chairman’s Report David Hartley
Arthur Rowles and the Elliott 401 Doron Swade
Editor’s Remarks Dik Leatherdale
News Round-Up  
Society Activity  
Pioneer Profiles - Seymour Cray Dik Leatherdale
The Seizing of Singer Michael Knight
Virtual Objects and the End of the Real Doron Swade
Obituary: Peter Hall Reay Atkinson
 

Number 48

Autumn 2009

Editor’s Remarks Dik Leatherdale
Society Activity  
News Round-Up  
Pioneer Profiles - Brian Warboys Peter Wharton
NATS Air Traffic Control Restoration at TNMoC Peter Vaughan
A Mystery Control Panel or Two Dik Leatherdale
My Early Days at Elliotts Tony Hoare
Obituary: Harold Hankins Dik Leatherdale
 

Number 49

Winter 2009/10

Editor’s Remarks Dik Leatherdale
Society Activity  
News Round-Up  
Pioneer Profiles - Douglas Hartree Crispin Rope
KDF9 Time Sharing: Eldon 2 is not EGDON! David Holdsworth
Elliott Computers for Motorway Signalling Richard Burwood
That Atlas Switch Panel Dik Leatherdale
System 25 - ICL’s Cinderella Success of the Eighties Michael Knight
 

Number 50

Spring 2010

ALGOL 60 - A Binary Star Dik Leatherdale
Society Activity  
News Round-Up  
Pioneer Profiles - Michael Woodger David Yates
Reminiscences of Whetstone ALGOL Brian Randell
On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary
of the ALGOL 60 Report
Tony Hoare
An ALGOL 60 Spiritual User Luca Cardelli
The Atlas ALGOL System Bob Hopgood
ALGOL 60 - Questions of Naming Dik Leatherdale
 

Number 51

Summer 2010

Society Activity  
News Round-Up  
Pioneer Profiles - Andrew Booth Roger Johnson
Reminiscences of the IBM 1401 John Smith
ICL 1904S Emulator, and a Plea for Information Brian Spoor
Obituary: Sandy Douglas Frank Land and Bill Olle
Letter to the Editor David Yates
Computing in Canada: Building a Digital Future Book Review by Dik Leatherdale
 

Number 52

Autumn 2010

Chairman’s Report David Hartley
Society Activity  
News Round-Up  
The Bloomsbury Group Dik Leatherdale
More Recollections of ALGOL 60 Tim Denvir
The Multi Variate Counter (MVC) Andrew Colin
MVC - Life After Death Dik Leatherdale
Letter to the Editor Alan Thomson
Obituary: John Aris John Aeberhard
 

Number 53

Winter 2010

Obituary : Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes 1913-2010 David Barron
Society Activity  
News Round-Up  
The Information Society Dik Leatherdale
The Pegasus Incident and its Aftermath Chris Burton
As Others See Us Loes Peeperkorn
Pioneer Profile: Ada Lovelace Doron Swade
 

Number 54

Spring 2011

Society Activity  
News Round-Up  
An Early Distributed Processing Project Michael Knight
The Ubiquitous IBM 029 Card Punch Dik Leatherdale
ENIAC Reborn - A Controversial View Crispin Rop
On the Origins of the 1900 Series HMSO
 

Number 55

Summer 2011

Society Activity  
News Round-Up  
Book Review : Moving Targets Roger Newey
The Evolution of the Disc Drive Neil Macphail
Visit to the Computer History Museum in California Kevin Murrell
 

Number 56

Winter 2011/2

Chairman’s Report David Hartley
Introducing..... Rachel Burnett
Editorial Dik Leatherdale
Society Activity  
News Round-Up  
Mercury and its Autocode Tony Brooker
Tony Sale: Tribute and Memoir Doron Swade
 

Number 57

Spring 2012

The Editor Grovels (Again) Dik Leatherdale
Society Activity  
News Round-Up  
Four Years of Fun David Hartley
Rescuing Software from Lineprinter Listings David Holdsworth
The RAF Pay and Records Project 1963-4 Michael Knight
An Archive of Early British Computing Work Hugh McGregor Ross
Book Review: Inventing the PC, The MCM/70 Story Rod Brown
Book Review: Alan Turing and His Contemporaries Dik Leatherdale
The Ferranti Mercury at I.C.I. ? a Follow-up Note Tommy Thomas
David Barron : A Personal Tribute David Hartley
 

Number 58

Summer 2012

Editorial Dik Leatherdale
Society Activity  
News Round-Up  
Misplaced Ingenuity Hamish Carmichael
The ICS Multum as I Remember it Bill Findlay
More Software from Lineprinter Listings Dik Leatherdale
Programming in Schools -Your Letters  
 

Number 59

Autumn 2012

Editorial Dik Leatherdale
Society Activity  
News Round-Up  
Atlas 50th Anniversary Simon Lavington
Enigma Challenge 12-17th June 2012 John Harper
More Misplaced Ingenuity Hamish Carmichael
Memories of Maximop Development Arthur Dransfield
The Sacking of Tommy Flowers Jork Andrews