Early Computing in Britain Ferranti Ltd. and Government Funding, 1948 - 1958 /

• Main Author: Lavington, Simon (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: History of Computing,
• Subjects: Computers.; Technology-History.; History.; History of Computing.; History of Technology.; History of Science.

This unique book presents the story of the pioneering manufacturing company Ferranti Ltd. - producer of the first commercially-available computers - and of the nine end-user organisations who purchased these machines with government help in the period 1951 to 1957. The text presents personal reminis...

Table of Contents:

• The Small Seeds of Innovation
• Academic/Industrial Collaboration: from Chorlton-on-Medlock to Moston, and Back
• Canada Calling: Toronto Gets a Mark I
• A Star is Born: Ideas and Upgrades
• Into the Market
• The AVRO Mark I* Installation at Chadderton
• The Mark I* at Armstrong Siddeley, Ansty, Coventry
• The Ferranti Mark I* Installation in Amsterdam
• The Ferranti Mark I* Installation in Rome
• GCHQ Cheltenham's Mark I*
• The Mark I* at the Armaments Research Development Establishment, Fort Halstead
• The Mark I* at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston
• What Came Next?
• Appendix A: Baby's Conception: the Back Story
• Appendix B: Mark I and Mark I* Software Details
• Appendix C: Mark I and Mark I* Hardware Details
• Appendix D: Naming Names
• Appendix E: Performance, Cost and Delivery Details of Other Computers.