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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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Number 18 |
Autumn 1997 |
Editorial | Nicholas Enticknap, Editor |
News Round-up | |
The KDF9 Computer - 30 Years On | Bob Beard |
The Dawn of Chinese Computing | Quiangnan Sun |
The Technological Evolution of the 1900 Range | Brian Procter |
Historical Jottings | |
Society Activity | |
Letters to the Editor | |
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Number 19 |
Spring 1998 |
Editorial | Nicholas Enticknap, Editor |
News Round-up | |
CCS Collection Policy | |
The Unicom Project | Peter Hall |
Early Chinese Computers | Quiangnan Sun |
Keeping the 1900 Competitive | Virgilio Pasquali |
Obituary: John Pinkerton | David Caminer |
Book Reviews | |
Society Activity | |
Bombe Rebuild Project - Appeal for Help | |
Letters to the Editor | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 |
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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 | |
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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 Story | Alan Thomson |
Timesharing History: an Update | John Deane |
Letters to the Editor | |
CCS Collection Policy | |
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Number 33 |
Spring 2004 |
News Round-Up | |
Society Activity | |
Inmos and the Transputer (part 2) | Iann Barron |
A Management Perspective on Orion | Peter Hall |
Before Moore's Law | Brian Wichmann |
Obituary: John Gosden | David Caminer |
Letters to the Editor | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | |
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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 |