Early British Computers: The Story of Vintage Computers and the People who Built Them |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Computing in the 1930s | 4 |
The second world war | 8 |
Copyright | |
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accumulator arithmetic ATLAS Automatic Computer BINAC binary Bletchley Park built calculating machine Cambridge EDSAC circuits COLOSSUS computer design computer development computer projects contained core store delay lines delay-line store delivered described in Chapter DEUCE devices Differential Analyser digital computer diodes drum store early British computers early computers EDSAC EDVAC electro-mechanical electronic electrostatic storage Elliott Brothers engineers English Electric English Electric DEUCE equipment F. C. Williams Ferranti Ltd Ferranti Mark Geheimschreiber germanium hardware index registers initially input instruction format Kilburn Leo Computers Lyons magnetic drum magnetic tape main store Manchester Mark Manchester University mercury delay lines microprogram microseconds milliseconds MOSAIC NRDC operand operational paper tape PEGASUS photograph Pilot ACE pioneering Post Office prototype punched punched-card scientific stored-program computer switch Table teleprinter thermionic valves Tom Kilburn transistor TREAC Turing Turing's unit UNIVAC Wilkes Williams tube word