Ferranti-Packard Ltd. was the Canadian division of Ferranti's global manufacturing empire, formed by the 1958 merger of Ferranti Electric and Packard...
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Ferranti or Ferranti International PLC was a UK electrical engineering and equipment firm that operated for over a century from 1885 until it went bankrupt...
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second-generation mainframe computer developed and built by Ferranti-Packard, the Canadian division of Ferranti, in the early 1960s. It is particularly notable for...
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Kenyon Taylor (category Ferranti)
set up an electronics laboratory at Ferranti Canada, which later merged with Packard, becoming Ferranti-Packard. Taylor took some members from the UK...
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the design rights to the Ferranti-Packard 6000 computer. According to Vardalas, this decision killed off the Ferranti-Packard computer business. By the...
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Flip-disc display (category Ferranti)
information. Ferranti-Packard and Westinghouse both bid on the project, Westinghouse using an electro-luminescent technology. Ferranti won the contract...
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buy the computer business of Ferranti. In order to sweeten the deal, Ferranti demonstrated to ICT the Ferranti-Packard 6000 (FP6000) machine, which had...
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compiler at Stanford University and wrote the ALGOL 60 compiler for the Ferranti-Packard 6000 and the ICT 1900. Along with his work on the programming language...
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International Computers and Tabulators (ICT), who selected the Canadian Ferranti-Packard 6000 as their mid-range offering, ending further sales of the Orion...
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DATAR (category Ferranti computers)
started by the Royal Canadian Navy in partnership with Ferranti Canada (later known as Ferranti-Packard) in 1949. They were aware of CDS and a US Navy project...
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ISSN 1058-6180. S2CID 15277748. Ball, Norman R.; Vardalas, John N. (1993), Ferranti-Packard: Pioneers in Canadian Electrical Manufacturing, McGill-Queen's Press...
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Rod Coutts (category Ferranti)
Ferranti International's Canadian division, Ferranti-Packard Electronics. Ferranti-Packard was known for projects related to FP6000 (Ferranti-Packard...
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I. P. Sharp Associates (category Ferranti)
company's founders worked as a team at the Toronto division of Ferranti, Ferranti-Packard, which sold many products to the Canadian military and large businesses...
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use core memory. A small team from Ferranti's Canadian subsidiary, Ferranti-Packard, visited the various Ferranti computer labs and saw their work on...
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Atlas (computer) (redirect from Ferranti Atlas)
ICT 1900 series, a flexible range of machines based on the Canadian Ferranti-Packard 6000. The Atlas was highly regarded by many in the computer industry...
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Teklogix (category Ferranti)
Teklogix, was a tech company founded in 1967 by engineers working at Ferranti-Packard. The company focused on mini computer applications. It designed and...
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ReserVec (category Ferranti computers)
of the transistor-based circuit design were put to good use in the Ferranti-Packard 6000 computer, which would later go on to see major sales in Europe...
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The Western Development Museum has the last remaining example of the Ferranti-Packard 6000, a Canadian designed early mainframe computer. It was donated...
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was bought out by Autodesk Inc. ATI Technologies – bought out by AMD Ferranti-Packard – early mainframe systems HCR Corporation – early Unix company, acquired...
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GEORGE 3, and GEORGE 4. Initially, the 1900 series machines, like the Ferranti-Packard 6000 on which they were based, ran a simple operating system known...
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Albert Hall (engineer) (section Return to Ferranti)
(P179) (Williams & Norgate 1934) "Beeston and District Civic Society" Ferranti Packard: Pioneers in Canadian Electrical Manufacturing Norman R Ball, John...
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Vardalas, John N. (1994). "8. Birth of the Electronics Division". Ferranti-Packard: Pioneers in Canadian Electrical Manufacturing. McGill-Queen's University...
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1961 Ferranti-Packard developed the ReserVec computer reservation system for TCA (now Air Canada). This formed the basis for the Ferranti-Packard 6000...
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CDC 3000 series, 5 models (1963-1967) DEC PDP-5 Elliott 503 Ferranti-Packard 6000 Ferranti Argus 100 Honeywell 1400 (12/63) Honeywell 1800 (11/63) Computer...
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Retrieved 15 June 2019. Norman R. Ball; John N. Vardalas (1 January 1994). Ferranti-Packard: Pioneers in Canadian Electrical Manufacturing. McGill-Queen's Press...
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devised after the acquisition of Ferranti's assets which brought in the new Ferranti-Packard 6000 machine from Ferranti's Canadian subsidiary, which was...
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designs, most notably the Ferranti Atlas of 1962, for a time the fastest computer in the world. In 1963 they used the Ferranti-Packard 6000, developed independently...
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Company, S.O. 1904, c. 94 Ball, Norman R.; Vardalas, John N. (1994). Ferranti-Packard: Pioneers in Canadian Electrical Manufacturing. Rolls-Royce Industries...
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Fairchild Semiconductor 9440 MICROFLAME Ferranti Ferranti F100-L Ferranti F200-L General Instrument CP1600 Hewlett-Packard HP 21xx/2000/1000/98xx/BPC HP 3000...
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Route Reference Computer (category Ferranti computers)
Ferranti Canada's Route Reference Computer was the first computerized mail sorter system, delivered to the Canadian Post Office in January 1957. Despite...
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