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Moving Targets Elliott-Automation and the Dawn of the Computer Age in Britain, 1947 - 67 /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Springer London : Imprint: Springer,
2011.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2011. |
| Colección: | History of Computing,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.