History of Computing

London : Springer , c2011

1 online resource (722 p.)

Description based upon print version of record.. - Moving Targets; Moving Targets - Elliott-Automationand the Dawn of the Computer Agein Britain, 1947-67; Introduction; Life in the 1950s; The Arrival of the Modern Computer; Sources and Acknowledgements; References; Contents; Chapter 1: The Navy Comes to Borehamwood; 1.1 A Place Called Borehamwood; 1.2 The Early Days of Naval Radar; 1.2.1 Setting up the UK's Research Establishments; 1.2.2 JF Coales and ASE; 1.2.3 Fire-Control Systems; 1.2.4 Action Information Organisation and CDS; 1.3 The Admiralty Decides; 1.4 Enter the Instrument Makers; 1.5 The Lewisham Factory of Elliott Brothers. - 1.6 Leon BagritReferences; Chapter 2: A Glint on the Horizon; 2.1 The Man for the Job; 2.2 Distant Targets; 2.3 The CDS Project; 2.4 The MRS5 Project; 2.4.1 Why Digital?; 2.4.2 Innovative Radar; 2.4.3 The Cancellation of MRS5; 2.4.4 The Netting Project and the Legacy of MRS5; 2.5 A Little Computer History; 2.6 The Elliott 152 Computer; 2.7 Enter the Entrepreneurs; 2.8 Borehamwood's Financial Struggles; 2.9 Pulling Out of the Mire; References; Chapter 3: The Secret Digit; 3.1 The Elliott 153: The DF Computer; 3.1.1 The Admiralty's Needs; 3.1.2 The Project at Borehamwood. - 3.1.3 General Description of the 153's Architecture3.1.4 The Operation of the 153 at Irton Moor; 3.2 GCHQ and Oedipus; 3.2.1 The Problem of Super-Enciphered Intercepts; 3.2.2 The 311 Project at Borehamwood; 3.2.3 The Structure and Operation of Oedipus; 3.3 Australia and WREDAC; 3.3.1 The Needs of Woomera; 3.3.2 WRE Chooses Elliott; 3.3.3 The Performance of WREDAC; 3.3.4 The Architecture of WREDAC and WREDOC; References; Chapter 4: Analogue Expertise; 4.1 Introduction: Analogue Versus Digital; 4.2 Admiralty Fire Control Tables; 4.2.1 Developments up to 1945; 4.2.2 Flyplane Predictor Systems. - 4.3 Early Analogue Computing Activity at Borehamwood4.3.1 The Differential Analyser; 4.4 TRIDAC: The World's Largest?; 4.4.1 Guided Weapons and Cold War Imperatives; 4.4.2 The TRIDAC Project and Borehamwood; 4.4.3 TRIDAC at RAE Farnborough; 4.5 AGWAC: An Australian Success; 4.5.1 The Joint Project Background; 4.5.2 The Birth of AGWAC; 4.5.3 AGWAC Grows Up; 4.6 Elliott Analogue Computers and Simulatorsfor Nuclear Power; 4.7 Small Analogue Computers: GPAC; References; Chapter 5: NRDC and the Market; 5.1 NRDC Discovers Borehamwood; 5.1.1 Funding for the Small-scale Prototype. - 5.1.2 Hopes for an Advanced Computer5.2 The Elliott/NRDC 401: Of Men and Machines; 5.2.1 The Ideas Take Shape; 5.2.2 The First Public Appearance; 5.2.3 They Have Their Exits and Their Entrances; 5.2.4 The 401's Progress, via Cambridge, to Rothamsted; 5.2.4.1 Why Did NRDC Install the 401 at Rothamsted?; 5.3 Into the Marketplace: The Elliott 400 Series; 5.3.1 New Management; 5.3.2 The 402 Production Gets Going; 5.3.3 Early Scientific Applications; 5.3.4 The Flutter Problem; 5.4 NRDC as a Partner for the Future; 5.4.1 The Siemens Project; 5.4.2 Process Control; References. - Chapter 6: Process Control and Automation: The Bagrit Vision. - This book charts the take-up of IT in Britain, as seen through the eyes of one company. It examines how the dawn of the digital computer age in Britain took place for different applications, from early government-sponsored work on secret defence projects, to the growth of the market for Elliott computers for civil applications. Features: charts the establishment of Elliott's Borehamwood Research Laboratories, and the roles played by John Coales and Leon Bagrit; examines early Elliott digital computers designed for classified military applications and for GCHQ; describes the analogue computers

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