Moving Targets Elliott-Automation and the Dawn of the Computer Age in Britain, 1947 – 67 /

• Main Author: Lavington, Simon (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: History of Computing,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers.; Computer Science.; History of Computing.

The Elliott-Automation company was an active participant in the birth of the information age in Britain. By 1961, the company was supplying 50% of the digital computers delivered to UK customers in that year.  Yet by the end of that decade, Elliott-Automation had effectively disappeared in a flurry...

Table of Contents:

• The Navy Comes to Borehamwood
• A Glint on the Horizon
• The Secret Digit
• Analogue Expertise
• NRDC and the Market
• Process Control and Automation: the Bagrit Vision
• Automation: the Machines and the Applications
• Software and Applications at Borehamwood
• NCR, the 405 and Commercial Data Processing
• Evolution of Elliott Computer Architectures
• EARS and Aerials: Elliott’s Radar Achievements
• Airborne Computing System Developments at Elliott-Automation, 1958 – 1988
• Mergers, Take-overs and Dispersals
• The End of the Line.