The Manchester computers were an innovative series of stored-program electronic computers developed during the 30-year period between 1947 and 1977 by...
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Simon (1980), Early British Computers: The Story of Vintage Computers and the People who built them (1st ed.), Manchester University Press Society,...
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of Manchester Computers, Swindon: The British Computer Society, ISBN 978-1-902505-01-5 Lavington, Simon (1998), A History of Manchester Computers (2 ed...
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Manchester Mark 1 was one of the earliest stored-program computers, developed at the Victoria University of Manchester, England from the Manchester Baby...
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Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs. These programs enable computers to perform a wide range of...
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History of computing hardware (redirect from History of computers)
personal computer (PC), in the 1970s. The cost of computers gradually became so low that personal computers by the 1990s, and then mobile computers (smartphones...
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The Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester is the longest established department of Computer Science in the United Kingdom and...
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Ferranti Mark 1 (redirect from Manchester Ferranti)
computing hardware List of vacuum-tube computers Manchester computers Several cheaper general purpose computers were available by 1952. See Pentagon symposium:...
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Computers designed or built in Britain include: Acorn Computers Acorn Eurocard systems Acorn System 1 Acorn Atom BBC Micro Acorn Electron BBC Master Acorn...
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Information technology (redirect from Computer services)
Early British Computers, Manchester University Press, ISBN 978-0-7190-0810-8 Lavington, Simon (1998), A History of Manchester Computers (2nd ed.), The...
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Manchester (/ˈmæntʃɪstər, -tʃɛs-/ ) is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had an estimated population of 568,996 in...
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uniform. In principle, stored-program computers have been designed with various architectural characteristics. A computer with a von Neumann architecture stores...
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Tom Kilburn (category People associated with the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester)
the development of computers at the University of Manchester. He led the development of a succession of innovative Manchester computers that incorporated...
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Computing (redirect from Computer technology)
ISBN 9783527340538. Lavington, Simon (1998), A History of Manchester Computers (2 ed.), Swindon: The British Computer Society, pp. 34–35 Moskowitz, Sanford L. (2016)...
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Tiny Computers Limited Is a British computer manufacturer based in Manchester, and London, England. The company was formed by Willow Vale Electronics Limited...
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This is a historical list of fastest computers and includes computers and supercomputers which were considered the fastest in the world at the time they...
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History of computing (redirect from The History of Computers)
Simon (1998), A History of Manchester Computers (2 ed.), Swindon: The British Computer Society, pp. 34–35 "Early Computers". Information Processing Society...
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Alan Turing (category Academics of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology)
the Victoria University of Manchester, where he helped develop the Manchester computers and became interested in mathematical biology. Turing wrote on the...
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Ferranti Mercury (redirect from Manchester Meg)
1 t). Manchester computers List of vacuum tube computers "COMPUTERS, Overseas: 5. Manchester University - MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY EXPERIMENTAL COMPUTER "MEG"ACYCLE"...
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Williams tube (category Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester)
early form of computer memory. It was the first random-access digital storage device, and was used successfully in several early computers. The Williams...
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Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Colossus used...
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magnetic drums of the Manchester Mark 1 computer. Manchester code was widely used for magnetic recording on 1600 bpi computer tapes before the introduction...
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Steve Furber (category People associated with the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester)
University of Manchester, UK. After completing his education at the University of Cambridge (BA, MMath, PhD), he spent the 1980s at Acorn Computers, where he...
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Mary Lee Woods (category People associated with the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester)
both the Ferranti Mark 1 and the Ferranti Mark 1 Star computers. The programs for these computers were written in machine code, and there was plenty of...
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Von Neumann architecture (redirect from Von Neumann computer)
implementation. Stored-program computers were an advancement over the manually reconfigured or fixed function computers of the 1940s, such as the Colossus...
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The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester City Centre on Oxford Road...
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Frederic C. Williams (category People associated with the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester)
University of Manchester. There, with Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, he built the first electronic stored-program digital computer, the Manchester Baby. Williams...
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Lavington, Simon Hugh (1998). A History of Manchester Computers (2 ed.). Swindon: The British Computer Society. pp. 41–52. ISBN 978-1-902505-01-5. Creasy...
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Autocode (category Science and technology in Greater Manchester)
devised in the 1950s and 1960s for a series of digital computers at the Universities of Manchester, Cambridge and London. Autocode was a generic term; the...
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Lavington, Simon Hugh; Society, British Computer (1998). A History of Manchester Computers. British Computer Society. ISBN 978-1-902505-01-5. Knuth, Donald...
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