• The Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer (RREAC) was an early solid-state computer in 1962. It was made with transistors; many of Britain's previous...
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  • The Royal Radar Establishment was a research centre in Malvern, Worcestershire in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1953 as the Radar Research Establishment...
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    Transistorised Automatic Computer (T.A.C.) Marconi Myriad Metrovick 950 MOSAIC Pilot ACE Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer SOLIDAC "Bywood...
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    " The name was changed to Radar Research Establishment in 1953, and again to the Royal Radar Establishment in 1957. This article covers the precursor...
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  • Flex machine (category Computers designed in the United Kingdom)
    The Flex Computer System was developed by Michael Foster and Ian Currie of Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE) in Malvern, England, during the...
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    The Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was a British early electronic serial stored-program computer design by Alan Turing. Turing completed the ambitious...
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    Philip Woodward (category People associated with radar)
    electronic computers, the TRE Automatic Computer (TREAC) followed by the UK's first solid state computer, the Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer. He...
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  • TREAC (category Computer music)
    parallel computer, the first in the UK. TREAC was switched off in 1962, and replaced with the Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer (RREAC, the...
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    gesture detection for computer interaction. Automatic door opening, light activation and intruder sensing are also common. A radar system has a transmitter...
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  • Protection RARDE – Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment (UK) RATAC – Radar de Tir pour L'Artillerie de Campagne (radar for field artillery...
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  • Susan G. Bond (category British computer programmers)
    language ALGOL 68 and the Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer (RREAC), an early solid-state electronics, ICL 1907F computer. Bond was born in 1942...
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    In 1948, all of the Royal Navy's radio and radar R&D activities were combined to form the Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment, located near Portsmouth...
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    A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation). Modern digital...
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    III IBM 7072 (6/62) IBM 7094 (9/62) Autonetics D-17B Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer Telefunken TR4 RW-400 aka AN/FSQ-27 by TRW SDS 910 SDS...
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    Airdrie Academy (category 1849 establishments in Scotland)
    1962-7 of the Royal Radar Establishment (wartime scientist working on radar); designed the Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer (RREAC), the first...
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    time, Colin Baron and John Twinn at the Royal Aircraft Establishment were developing an optical semi-automatic command to line of sight (SACLOS) system...
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    the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, UK built the Harwell Dekatron Computer in 1951, which was an automatic calculator where the decimal...
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    which uses computers and radars to track and guide weapons to destroy enemy targets. It was developed by the Missile and Surface Radar Division of RCA...
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  • after an experimental model by the Royal Radar Establishment, it was in British service from 1962 until 1975 with the Royal Artillery. A self-propelled version...
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    Terrain-following radar (TFR) is a military aerospace technology that allows a very-low-flying aircraft to automatically maintain a relatively constant...
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    efficient. The Royal Radar Establishment in the UK developed a different approach for their Green Archer system. Instead of a conical beam, the radar signal was...
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  • Research Establishment conducting research on radar. In 1941 he enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and from 1943 taught radar and electronics...
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  • Ted Cooke-Yarborough (category Computer designers)
    the Harwell Dekatron, one of the world's early electronic computers and also a pioneer of radar. Ted Cooke-Yarborough was born at Campsall in the Yorkshire...
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    idea of an integrated circuit was conceived by a radar scientist working for the Royal Radar Establishment of the Ministry of Defence, Geoffrey W.A. Dummer...
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    Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (category Air defence radar networks)
    Cold War early warning radar, computer, and communications system, for ballistic missile detection. The network of twelve radars, which was constructed...
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    Konrad Zuse's Z3 was the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, with binary digital arithmetic logic, but it lacked the conditional...
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  • the AMES Type 7 radar, which provided a 360 degrees view; such radar was developed at the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE). The other...
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    "Aircraft Interception Radar and Pilot's Attack Sight System". In the Royal Air Force (RAF) it was given the official name Radar, Aircraft Interception...
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    LVDTs. Fly-by-wire control systems allow aircraft computers to perform tasks without pilot input. Automatic stability systems operate in this way. Gyroscopes...
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    Edsger W. Dijkstra (category Computer science educators)
    'Communication with an Automatic Computer', devoted to a description of the assembly language designed for the first commercial computer developed in the Netherlands...
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