Resurrection - The CCS Journal

Resurrection is the Society’s journal. With typically three issues each year containing articles on computer history and related topics in an A5 booklet format. It contains CCS news, articles and other material.

Resurrection now forms a significant and authoritative record on computer history - on the machines, on early applications, and on the people.

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Online issues

106 - Autumn 2024'	105 - Summer 2024	104 - Spring 2024	103 - Autumn 2023	102 - Summer 2023
101 - Spring 2023	100 - Winter 2022/3	99 - Autumn 2022	98 - Summer 2022	97 - Spring 2022
96 - Winter 2021/22	95 - Autumn 2021	94 - Summer 2021	93 - Spring 2021	92 - Winter 2020/21
91 - Autumn 2020	90 - Summer 2020	89 - Spring 2020	88 - Winter 2019/20	87 - Autumn 2019
86 - Summer 2019	85 - Spring 2019	84 - Winter 2018/9	83 - Autumn 2018	82 - Summer 2018
81 - Spring 2018	80 - Winter 2017/8	79 - Autumn 2017	78 - Summer 2017	77 - Spring 2017
76 - Winter 2016/7	75 - Autumn 2016	74 - Summer 2016	73 - Spring 2016	72 - Winter 2015/16
71 - Autumn 2015	70 - Summer 2015	69 - Spring 2015	68 - Winter 2014/15	67 - Autumn 2014
66 - Summer 2014	65 - Spring 2014	64 - Winter 2013/14	63 - Autumn 2013	62 - Summer 2013
61 - Spring 2013	60 - Winter 2012/13	59 - Autumn 2012	58 - Summer 2012	57 - Spring 2012
56 - Winter 2011/12	55 - Summer 2011	54 - Spring 2011	53 - Winter 2010/11	52 - Autumn 2010
51 - Summer 2010	50 - Spring 2010	49 - Winter 2009/10	48 - Autumn 2009	47 - Summer 2009
46 - Spring 2009	45 - Winter 2008/09	44 - Autumn 2008	43 - Summer 2008	42 - Spring 2008
41 - Autumn 2007	40 - Summer 2007	39 - New Year 2007	38 - Summer 2006	37 - Spring 2006
36 - Autumn 2005	35 - Summer 2005	34 - Spring 2005	33 - Spring 2004	32 - New Year 2004
31 - Autumn 2003	30 - Spring 2003	29 - Winter 2002	28 - Summer 2002	27 - Spring 2002
26 - Autumn 2001	25 - Summer 2001	24 - Autumn 2000	23 - New Year 2000	22 - Summer 1999
21 - Spring 1999	20 - Summer 1998	19 - Spring 1998	18 - Autumn 1997	17 - Spring 1997
16 - Christmas 1996	15 - Summer 1996	14 - Winter 1995/96	13 - Autumn 1995	12 - Summer 1995
11 - Winter 1994	10 - Summer 1994	9 - Spring 1994	8 - Winter 1993	7 - Autumn 1993
6 - Summer 1993	5 - Spring 1993	4 - Summer 1992	3 - Spring 1991	2 - Autumn 1990
		1 - May 1990

 

Contents List of Articles

Number 106 Autumn 2024 Society Activity News Round-Up Queries and Notes Programming MOSAIC Edward Smith A Disappointingly Quiet Birthday Dik Leatherdale Obituary : Brian Spoor Bill Gallagher and Delwyn Holroyd Fifty Years Ago ¿. from the pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous – TNMoC Archivist     Number 105 Summer 2024 Society Activity   News Round-Up   Queries & Notes   CCS Visit to Musée Bolo Lausanne Rachel Burnett Programming the Later EDSAC Jerry McCarthy Tony Sale Award 2024 Martin Campbell-Kelly Obituary : Peter Short Peter Coghlan Book Review : The Web before the Web – Ian Ritchie Roland Ibbett Letter to the Editor Jon Griver Fifty Years Ago .. from the pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous – TNMoC Archivist     Number 104 Spring 2024 Society Activity Chair’s Report Doron Swade Introducing Our New Chair – Chris Rees   Talking with Computers Simon Lavington A Virtual Experience of LEO 1 Dr Lisa McGerty & Peter Byford Obituary : Tom Hinchliffe Bob Geaterell Book Reviews – Stories of Computing Long Ago Rachel Burnett Theatre Review – ALAN TURING A Musical Biography Dik Leatherdale 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 103 Autumn 2023 Society Activity   News Round-Up   Queries & Notes   World’s Most beatiful Computer: IBM 360 Model 40 Kevin Stumph Programming the Later EDSAC Andrew Herbert Obituary : Gordon Adshead Bob Geaterell and Others 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 102 Summer 2023 Society Activity   News Round-Up   Delilah Voice Secrecy System [part 2] John Harper Using Pegasus to Automate UK Banking John Wallace CCS Visit to the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum Rachel Burnett Obituary : Charles H. Lindsey Gillian Lindsey Obituary : Gordon Moore Dik Leatherdale 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 101 Spring 2023 Society Activity   News Round-Up   Queries and Notes   Delilah Voice Secrecy System John Harper The Development of the MOSAIC Computer Edward Smith Simulation Modelling of Historical Computers[2] Roland Ibbett & David Dolman The Birth of the Barcode Derrick Brown 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 100 Winter 2022/23 Society Activity   News Round-Up   Queries and Notes   Chair’s Annual Report Doron Swade Resurrection – 100 Not Out Dik Leatherdale Simulation Modelling of Historical Computers[1] Roland Ibbett & David Dolman Data processing in the 1960s: The Commercial Union’s Exeter Computer Centre Simon Lavington Obituary – Kathleen Booth Roger Johnson Review – The History of Computing: A very Short Introduction Martin Campbell-Kelly 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 99 Autumn 2022 Society Activity   News Round-Up   Professor Tilly Blyth Rachel Burnett & Dik Leatherdale ICT 1301 “Flossie” 60th at TNMoC in 2022 Stuart Fyfe Using One Historical Computer to Emulate Another Lee Wittenberg Two Manchester Computer Milestones Simon Lavington 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 98 Summer 2022 Society Activity   News Round-Up   Queries and Notes   MONITOR – An Early Transaction-based System Edward Smith Resurrection Matters Dik leatherdale Interlisp Restoration Project Steve Kaisler Obituary : Len Hewitt Kevin Murrell 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 97 Spring 2022 Society Activity   News Round-Up   Corrections and Clarifications   Queries and Notes   Alan Turing and Oxford Jonathan P. Bowan A Life of Calculation (Part 2) Ron Weeden Another Long-Undiscovered Software Error Dik Leatherdale 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 96 Winter 2021/22 Society Activity   News Round-Up   Queries and Notes   Chair’s Report 2020-2021 Doron Swade A Life of Calculation (Part 1) Ron Weeden GRAM, an extended GPM David Duce and Kate Sullivan 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 95 Autumn 2021 Society Activity   News Round-Up   Queries and Notes   Bronze Plaques to Honour Two Outstanding Historic Computer Projects Simon Lavington Bryant Discs Re-Revisited Many Members The Experimental Packet Switching Service – EPSS Edward Smith, Jim Norton & Chris Miller Programming CSIRAC Bill Purvis 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 94 Summer 2021 Society Activity   Queries and Notes   Bryant Discs Revisited Varos Shahbazian, David Holdsworth, John Harper Archives of IT: Discover, Learn, Share Industry Insight Tom Abram Book Review: So to Speak: Stephenie Shirley Peta Walmisley ICL’s PF56 General Purpose Controllers David Wilcox Review Conversations with Frank Land Martin Campbell-Kelly 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 93 Spring 2021 Society Activity   News Round-up   The Cray Y-MP EL : An Overview Clive England Bryant disc file at BMC Service, Cowley, Oxford John Harper CCS at the Movies – December 2020 Dan Hayton Book Review : The IT Girl: Ann Moffat Frank Land Obituary: George Davis Roger Johnsonr Obituary: Arthur Rowles Doron Swade 0 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 92 Winter 2020/21 Society Activity   News Round-up   CCS Annual Report David Morriss Obituary: Prof. Dai Edwards Simon Lavington Compiler Compiler – A Gentle Introduction Dik Leatherdale Very Early programming at English Electric Simon Lavington The TNMoC 2966 – A Tale of its Predecessors Brian Spoor ICL House Revisited Dik Leatherdale 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 91 Autumn 2020 Society Activity   News Round-up   Simulation – from Analogue Computer to Excel John Wilcock Repairing an Argus 700 MS221 Tape Controller Peter Harry A Visit to Museo de Iformática, Buenos Aires Peta Walmisley 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 90 Summer 2020 Society Activity   News Round-up   Packet Switching and the NPL Network Peter Wilkinson Thoughts on the ICL Basic Language Machine Virgillio Pasquali Obituary: Margaret Sale Stephen Fleming Why is there no well-known Swiss IT Industry? Herbert Bruderer Ho Hum, Nothing to Do Michael Clarke 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 89 Spring 2020 Society Activity   News Round-up   The ICL PF50 John Harper The English Electric KDF 6 Andrew Herbert Book Review: Charles & Ada : The Computer’s most Passionate Partnership8 Dik Leatherdale The Flexipede Revisited Kate Sullivan, David Duce, Bob Hopgood 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 88 Winter 2019/20 Society Activity   News Round-up   The Data Curator Paul Cockshott From Tea Shops to Computer Company: the Improbable Story of LEO John Aeberhard Book Review: Early Computing in Britain Ferranti Ltd. and Government Funding 1948 – 1958 Chris Burton The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures Dik Leatherdale Obituary: Tony Brooker Dik Leatherdale 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 87 Autumn 2019 Society Activity   News Round-up   CCS Annual Report and Chair’s Adieu David Morriss The Elliott 502 at Malvern Iann Barron The Formation of ICL and the “New Range” Virgillio Pasquali Book Review : Alan Turing’s Manchester Dik Leatherdale Obituary: George Felton 1921-2019 Martin Campbell-Kelly Letter to the Editor Michael J. Clarke 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 86 Summer 2019 Society Activity   News Round-up   Bringing Comfort and Style to Atlas Edd Thomas English Electric and its Sucessors at Kidsgrove John Wilcock A Mystery Picture Revisited Dik Leatherdale CCS Visit to NAM-IP at Namur Rachel Burnett 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 85 Spring 2019 Society Activity   News Round-up   STAB1 Andrew Colin & Chris Maden Bringing Bletchley Park’s Colossus to an FPGA Ben North Grantchester Andrew Herbert Letter to the Editor Michael J. Clarke Unearthing LEO AND THE MANAGERS Graham Briscoe A Life in Computing Alan Sercombe 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 84 Winter 2018/9 Society Activity   News Round-up   Tony Sale Award 2018 Martin Campbell-Kelly ML/I – Son of GPM? Bob Eager Elliott 905 ML/I Andrew Herbert ICL 1900 Extended Floating Point Remembered Michael J. Clarke A Life in Computing Roger Collier 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 83 Autumn 2018 Society Activity   News Round-up   Chair’s Report David Morriss The Computer-Aided Design Centre at 50 Alan R. Clarke Installing an ICL 1907F at RRE Malvern Michael J. Clarke Bull Technology Museum Mike Smith A Life in Computing Mike Brisk A Mystery Picture Dik Leatherdale 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 82 Summer 2018 Society Activity   News Round-up   The Bombe is Moved! Roger Johnson Language H: An Informal Overview (Part 2) Andrew Herbert 277,232,917 – 1 Triggers KDF9 Nostalgia David Holdsworth A “Feature” of IBM 360 Floating Point Peter Radford CCS Donations Fund A Note on Copyright Brian Wichmann 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 81 Spring 2018 Society Activity   News Round-up   North West Group David Morriss Language H: An Informal Overview (Part 1) Andrew Herbert Emulation, Simulation and Replicas — Bringing New Life and New Users to the PDP-8 Kevin Murrell A Life in Computing John Dennis Correspondence Ann Moffatt and Others 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 80 Winter 2017/8 Society Activity   News Round-up   CCS Chair’s Annual Report David Morriss GPM for a Challenge P.A. Cherepanov Smoke and Mirrors — The ICL 2905 Dik Leatherdale A Life in Computing Alan Freke Obituary : Geoff Tootill Martin Campbell-Kelly Out of Oslo Peter Short Yet Another Differential Analyser From The Meccano Magazine - January 1951 Letter to the Editor Mike Robinson 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 79 Autumn 2017 Society Activity   News Round-up   Making IT Work — A Report Nicholas Enticknap Lost Bits Regained? Brian M. Russell A Multiple Curta Herbert Bruderer A Life in Computing Peter Tomlinson Obituary : Hamish Carmichael Dik Leatherdale Book Review : The Story of the Computer Dik Leatherdale Book Review : The Turing Guide Dan Hayton 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 78 Summer 2017 Society Activity   News Round-up   Programming the ENIAC and Electronic Analogue Computers Rainer Glaschick Miniature Bricks : CCS Visit to the Deutsches Museum, Munich Ben Trethowan Big Physics and Small Computers Geoff Sharman A Long-Undiscovered Bug David Holdsworth Letter to the Editor : Teleprocessing and LEO? Frank Land Obituary : Harry Huskey Martin Campbell-Kelly John Poulter Papers Martin Campbell-Kelly 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 77 Spring 2017 Society Activity   News Round-up   The Evolution of Enterprise Computing Geoff Sharman Reflections on the Hoot Simon Lavington In Search of the Lost Bits Dik leatherdale The Science Museum’s Winton Gallery Kevin Murrell Letter to the Editor : PLAYSD John Buckle 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 76 Winter 2016/7 Society Activity   News Round-up   God Save the King An Early Musical program on the Ferranti Mark 1 David Link Cleaning the Elliott 401 Computer Dominique Russell Dennis Blackwell – a Life Susan Colley A Chilton Atlas Ghost Story Chrissy Norris The Tony Sale Award 2016 Martin Campbell-Kelly and others Book Review : Archeology of Algorithmic Artefacts Doron Swade 50 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 75 Autumn 2016 Society Activity   News Round-up   CCS Chair’s Annual Report Rachel Burnett Our New Chair in his Own Words, David Morriss Emidec 2400 and the Graduated Pension Scheme David Bew Leo the First Business Computer Neville Lyons Multiple Curtas Herbert Bruderer Recovering a Music-Ruled Computer Listing Terry Froggat 40 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous And 50 Years Ago ...     Number 74 Summer 2016 Society Activity   News Round-up   Can you Help?   Animating Centipedes, Alien and Channel 4 Victoria Marshall Computerising in the 1980s Knut Jürgensen Birth & Death of the Basic Language Machine John Iliffe A Search through the Bins of History Iann Barron 40 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 73 Spring 2016 Society Activity   News Round-up   The Baby Baby or An Extremely Small Scale Experimental Machine — Part 2 Dave Wade A Letter from Christopher Strachey Clive Page & Martin Richards 1950s Computer Training Package Graham Briscoe 40 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous         Number 72 Winter 2015/16 Society Activity   News Round-up   The Baby Baby or An Extremely Small Scale Experimental Machine Dave Wade Memories of Witch Mike Tedd Elliott 903 Music Andrew Herbert 40 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 71 Autumn 2015 Chair’s Report for 2014-5 Rachel Burnett Society Activity   News Round-up   Donations Request Correction Rachel Burnett In Unlikely Places Dik Leatherdale City and Guilds Mnemonic Code Andrew Herbert ICL 7903 & 2812 Emulation Bill Gallagher 40 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 70 Summer 2015 New Arrangements for Resurrection Dik Leatherdale Society Activity   News Round-up   HEC2(M)-Keeping the Drum Spinning Jeremy Wellesley-Baldwin A Leo III: 21st Century Hindsight David Holdsworth Retro Computing with a Difference Michael Brisk 40 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 69 Spring 2015 Society Activity   News Round-Up   The Raspberry Pi: History in the Making Gareth Halfacree Computing at Chilton 1959-2000 Bob Hopgood and Brian Davies Rediscovering the Chilton Atlas Console Victoria Marshall Obituary: Hugh McGregor-Ross Simon Lavington 40 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 68 Winter 2014/15 Society Activity   News Round-Up   Chair’s Report for 2013-2014 Rachel Burnett Tony Sale Award 2014 Martin Campbell-Kelly Archives and your Personal Papers Martin Campbell-Kelly & Simon Lavington Founding and Early History of the CCS Doron Swade Review: The Information Age Dik Leatherdale 40 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 67 Autumn 2014 Society Activity   News Round-Up   The ICT 1900 in Canada John Buckle The CSIR Mark 1/CSIRAC : Australia's First Computer Peter Thorne Dr Trevor Pearcey - at the Forefront of Early Computer Design Barbara Ainsworth 40 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 66 Summer 2014 Society Activity   News Round-Up   Discovering an Enhanced Mercury Gustavo Del Dago The HoneyPi Project — A Home-brew Computer with Attitude Rob Sanders Strachey’s General Purpose MacroGenerator Andrew Herbert Obituary: Willam A. (Ben) Gunn (1926-2013) Tom Hinchliffe 40 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 65 Spring 2014 Society Activity   News Round-Up   Remembering the IBM 1620 Andrew Colin 100 Years of IBM (part 2) Terry Muldoon Building a Soft Atlas Dik Leatherdale Book Review: It Began with Babbage Simon Lavington Obituary: Chris Hipwell Nicholas Enticknap 40 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 64 Winter 2013/14 Chair's Report   Society Activity   News Round-Up   100 Years of IBM (Part 1) Terry Muldoon The ICL Historical Collection and 1900 Computers - What Still Exists? Alan Thomson and Delwyn Holroyd The Cambridge Meccano Differential Analyser No. 2 William Irwin Obituary: Professor Frank Sumner Simon Lavington 40 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 63 Autumn 2013 Society Activity   News Round-Up   The Cambridge CAP Computer Andrew Herbert Homebrewing Computers: Then and Now Oscar Vermeulen Letter to the Editor Ian Cottam 40 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous     Number 62 Summer 2013 Society Activity   News Round-Up   Designing and Building Atlas Dai Edwards The Compiler Compiler - Reflections of a User 50 Years On George Coulouris Adapting & Innovating: The Development of IT Law Rachel Burnett 40 Years Ago .... From the Pages of Computer Weekly Brian Aldous What Did that Box Do? Dave Wade     Number 61 Spring 2013 Society Activity   News Round-Up   They Seek Him Here... Dik Leatherdale Atlas in Context Simon Lavington Elliott 903 Software Andrew Herbert Dekatron – The Story of an Invention John & Robin Acton Book Review: Early Home Computers Dik Leatherdale     Number 60 Winter 2012/13 Chair‘s Report Rachel Burnett Society Activity   News Round-Up   The Tony Sale Awards 2012 Rachel Burnett Demonstrating Restored & Replica Computers Kevin Murrell Programming ENTER : Christopher Strachey‘s Draughts Program David Link Book Review : Pegasus The Seminal Early Computer Dik Leatherdale Book Review : Let IT Go Hamish Carmichael Obituary: Brian Oakley Martin Campbell-Kelly     Number 59 Autumn 2012 Editorial Dik Leatherdale Society Activity   News Round-Up   Atlas 50th Anniversary Simon Lavington Enigma Challenge 12-17th June 2012 John Harper More Misplaced Ingenuity Hamish Carmichael Memories of Maximop Development Arthur Dransfield The Sacking of Tommy Flowers Jork Andrews     Number 58 Summer 2012 Editorial Dik Leatherdale Society Activity   News Round-Up   Misplaced Ingenuity Hamish Carmichael The ICS Multum as I Remember it Bill Findlay More Software from Lineprinter Listings Dik Leatherdale Programming in Schools -Your Letters       Number 57 Spring 2012 The Editor Grovels (Again) Dik Leatherdale Society Activity   News Round-Up   Four Years of Fun David Hartley Rescuing Software from Lineprinter Listings David Holdsworth The RAF Pay and Records Project 1963-4 Michael Knight An Archive of Early British Computing Work Hugh McGregor Ross Book Review: Inventing the PC, The MCM/70 Story Rod Brown Book Review: Alan Turing and His Contemporaries Dik Leatherdale The Ferranti Mercury at I.C.I. ? a Follow-up Note Tommy Thomas David Barron : A Personal Tribute David Hartley     Number 56 Winter 2011/12 Chairman’s Report David Hartley Introducing..... Rachel Burnett Editorial Dik Leatherdale Society Activity   News Round-Up   Mercury and its Autocode Tony Brooker Tony Sale: Tribute and Memoir Doron Swade     Number 55 Summer 2011 Society Activity   News Round-Up   Book Review : Moving targets Roger Newey The Evolution of the Disc Drive Neil Macphail Visit to the Computer History Museum in California Kevin Murrell     Number 54 Spring 2011 Society Activity   News Round-Up   An Early Distributed Processing Project Michael Knight The Ubiquitous IBM 029 Card Punch Dik Leatherdale ENIAC Reborn - A Controversial View Crispin Rope On the Origins of the 1900 Series HMSO     Number 53 Winter 2010 Obituary : Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes 1913-2010 David Barron Society Activity   News Round-Up   The Information Society Dik Leatherdale The Pegasus Incident and its Aftermath Chris Burton As Others See Us Loes Peeperkorn Pioneer Profile: Ada Lovelace Doron Swade     Number 52 Autumn 2010 Chairman’s Report David Hartley Society Activity   News Round-Up   The Bloomsbury Group Dik Leatherdale More Recollections of ALGOL 60 Tim Denvir The Multi Variate Counter (MVC) Andrew Colin MVC - Life After Death Dik Leatherdale Letter to the Editor Alan Thomson Obituary: John Aris John Aeberhard     Number 51 Summer 2010 Society Activity   News Round-Up   Pioneer Profiles - Andrew Booth Roger Johnson Reminiscences of the IBM 1401 John Smith ICL 1904S Emulator, and a Plea for Information Brian Spoor Obituary: Sandy Douglas Frank Land and Bill Olle Letter to the Editor David Yates Book Review: Computing in Canada: Building a Digital Future Dik Leatherdale     Number 50 Spring 2010 ALGOL 60 - A Binary Star Dik Leatherdale Society Activity   News Round-Up   Pioneer Profiles - Michael Woodger David Yates Reminiscences of Whetstone ALGOL Brian Randell On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the ALGOL 60 Report Tony Hoare An ALGOL 60 Spiritual User Luca Cardelli The Atlas ALGOL System Bob Hopgood ALGOL 60 - Questions of Naming Dik Leatherdale     Number 49 Winter 2009/10 Editor’s Remarks Dik Leatherdale Society Activity   News Round-Up   Pioneer Profiles - Douglas Hartree Crispin Rope KDF9 Time Sharing: Eldon 2 is not EGDON! David Holdsworth Elliott Computers for Motorway Signalling Richard Burwood That Atlas Switch Panel Dik Leatherdale System 25 - ICL’s Cinderella Success of the Eighties Michael Knight     Number 48 Autumn 2009 Editor’s Remarks Dik Leatherdale Society Activity   News Round-Up   Pioneer Profiles - Brian Warboys Peter Wharton NATS Air Traffic Control Restoration at TNMoC Peter Vaughan A Mystery Control Panel or Two Dik Leatherdale My Early Days at Elliotts Tony Hoare Obituary: Harold Hankins Dik Leatherdale     Number 47 Summer 2009 Chairman’s Report David Hartley Arthur Rowles and the Elliott 401 Doron Swade Editor’s Remarks Dik Leatherdale News Round-Up   Society Activity   Pioneer Profiles - Seymour Cray Dik Leatherdale The Seizing of Singer Michael Knight Virtual Objects and the End of the Real Doron Swade Obituary: Peter Hall Reay Atkinson     Number 46 Spring 2009 IMechE Engineering Heritage Award for the Bombe David Hartley & Dik Leatherdale Editor’s Remarks Dik Leatherdale News Round-Up   Society Activity   Pioneer Profiles - Stan Gill David Barron Some More CAFS Applications Hamish Carmichael & Martin Wright Preserving an ICT 1301 Rod Brown Kings College London Computing Museum Richard E. Overill & Jantje A. M. Silomon The Prime of Life Simon Lavington collection Obituary: Harry Johnson Hugh McGregor Ross Obituary: Brian Napper Dik Leatherdale     Number 45 Winter 2008/9 Doron Swade MBE David Hartley and Dik Leatherdale Editor’s Remarks Dik Leatherdale News Round-Up   Society Activity   Pioneer Profiles - Tony Brooker Brian Napper Some CAFS Applications Hamish Carmichael & Martin Wright Where did it all go? Simon Lavington Obituary: F.J. Murray Laver Reay Atkinson You Can Become a Computer Programmer! Dik Leatherdale     Number 44 Autumn 2008 The Editor Grovels Dik Leatherdale News Round-Up   Society Activity   Pioneer Profiles - Donald Davies Martin Campbell-Kelly Titan - the Poor Man’s Atlas? David Hartley The Ferranti Sirius at Monash University Barbara Ainsworth You Can Become a Computer Programmer! Dik Leatherdale Letters to the Editor   The AEI 1010 - an Additional Note Ron Foulkes     Number 43 Autumn 2008 Greetings! Dik Leatherdale Chairman’s Report for 2007-08 David Hartley News Round-Up   Society Activity   Pioneer Profiles - Christopher Strachey David Barron Computers at Metrovick :    The MV950 and AEI 1010 Ron Foulkes Beacon 1963-7 : A System Design    Ahead of its Time Michael Knight The Ghost of KDF9 Brian Wichmann Letters to the Editor   Obituary: David Caminer Frank Land; Obituary: Professor Hilary Kahn Dik Leatherdale     Number 42 Spring 2008 Valediction Nicholas Enticknap Note by the Chairman David Hartley John Harper FBCS   News Round-Up   Society Activity   Mathematician and Nurse to a Pegasus Peter Barnes Scapa - A System for Post Colonial Agriculture Colin Leakey Elliott Computers Simon Lavington Letters to the Editor   BCS@50 in pictures       Number 41 Autumn 2007 News Round-Up   Society Activity   Computer Development in Cambridge 1937-80 Maurice Wilkes Early Computer Production at Elliotts Laurence Clarke The Origins of Fortran Peter Crouch Obituary: Dina St Johnston Simon Lavington Letters to the Editor       Number 40 Summer 2007 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap News Round-Up   Society Activity   Production Control at Letchworth Hamish Carmichael June - a Home-Grown Operating System Andrew Colin Memories of the Elliott 803B Graham Phillips Letters to the Editor       Number 39 New Year 2007 Editorial   News Round-Up   IEEE Annals of the History of Computing   Society Activity   The Mainframe Years in the Computer Press Chris Hipwell Computing Before the Computer Jane Wess Eighteenth Century Computers Mary Croarken     Number 38 Summer 2006 News Round-Up   Society Activity   Creating Computer Courses Paul Samet Getting the Job Done George Felton Role of the National Computing Centre David Firnberg Creating a Sane Professional Body John Ivinson Pictures of the Past       Number 37 Spring 2006 News Round-Up   Society Activity   The Zuse Computers Raúl Rojas Information Processing in the 19th Century Martin Campbell-Kelly Making Money While the World Slept Gerald Everitt Letters to the Editor   Pictures of the Past       Number 36 Autumn 2005 Society Activity   Obituary: Harold Gearing   Finding the Necessity for Invention Hugh McGregor Ross Leo II and the Model T Ford Frank Land Problem Solving with George 3 Today Brian Spoor How the BCS Was Born Peter Barnes Book Review   Letters to the Editor       Number 35 Summer 2005 Editorial   News Round-Up   Society Activity   How British Computer Industry    Muddled Through Peter Hall Why Did the European Computer    Industry Fail? Peter Hall ICL and Europe Virgilio Pasquali Why Collaboration Rarely Succeeded David Talbot Breaking the Mould Reay Atkinson Letters to the Editor       Number 34 Spring 2005 News Round-Up   Society Activity   Early Insurance Broking Applications Ernest Morris   Appeal for Help Hamish Carmichael   Pericles - A Pioneering Online Service Hamish Carmichael   Trojan Horses and National Champions Paul Gannon   Letters to the Editor       Number 33 Spring 2004 News Round-Up   Society Activity   Inmos and the Transputer (part 2) Iann Barron A Management Perspective on Orion Peter Hall Before Moore's Law Brian Wichmann Obituary: John Gosden David Caminer Letters to the Editor       Number 32 New Year 2004 News Round-Up   Society Activity   Inmos and the Transputer (part 1) Iann Barron The Shocking Truth about Babbage     and his Calculating Engines Doron Swade Timesharing History: the UK Story Alan Thomson Timesharing History: an Update John Deane Letters to the Editor   CCS Collection Policy       Number 31 Autumn 2003 News Round-Up   Society Activity   CCS Collection Policy   Timesharing History: a Researcher's Findings John Deane   From Cog Wheels to Turbo Pascal Don Hunter   Our Computer Heritage   Family Ties: the DEC PDP-11 Kevin Murrell   Recollections of the Monrobot Norma Edwins   Digitising the Algol Bulletin Brian Wichmann   What challenges have you overcome? Ernest Morris   Letters to the Editor       Number 30 Spring 2003 Generous BCS Support for    Bombe Rebuild Project Ernest Morris, Chairman   AGM   News Round-up   Society Activity   CCS Collection Policy   DAP snippets Brian M Russell   British Computer Corporation    - a 1956 Venture Hugh McGregor Ross   Edsger Dijkstra remembered Brian Shearing   Deciphering Ancient Floppy Discs Kevin Murrell   The ICL Archive Hamish Carmichael       Number 29 Winter 2002 News Round-up Society Activity   Leo and the Computer Revolution: part two David Caminer   The BCL Molecular 18 Kevin Murrell   CCS Web site information   Pegasus at Kodak Ann Moffatt   Letters to the Editor       Number 28 Summer 2002 News Round-up Leo and the Computer Revolution: part one David Caminer   First steps in computing at the Prudential Ewart Willey   Two Early Pegasus Computers in Use Godfrey N Lance   Letters to the Editor   Help Wanted   CCS Collection Policy       Number 27 Spring 2002 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap   News Round-up   Society Activity   Nicholas, the Forgotten Elliott Project Ed Hersom   Program Verification and Semantics: Early Work Teresa Numerico and Jonathan Bowen   Uses of the Science Museum Pegasus Doug Brewster   Cost-justifying Computers: Early Thinking Hugh McGregor Ross   CCS Collection Policy   Anniversaries in 2002       Number 26 Autumn 2001 News Round-up Assertions: A Personal Perspective Tony Hoare   Keeping Old Warhorses in Action Stuart Fyfe   Punched Cards Are Not Dead Yet Hamish Carmichael   Zuse Z3 replica is operational Martin Campbell-Kelly   In Memoriam ICL Hamish Carmichael   CCS Collection Policy   Society Activity   Letters to the Editor       Number 25 Summer 2001 News Round-up How Should We Be Talking To You? Hamish Carmichael   Tribute to Tom Kilburn   Obituary: Derek Milledge George Felton   Obituary: Bill Elliott Hugh McGregor Ross   Ferranti's London Computer Centre Hugh McGregor Ross   Dawn of the Data Processing Age Hamish Carmichael   Mil-DAP Resurrection Project Brian M Russell   Society Activity   Letters to the Editor       Number 24 Autumn 2000 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap   News Round-up   Recollections of Early Vacuum Tube Circuits Maurice Wilkes   Obituary: John Grover   In the Footsteps of the Conqueror Nicholas Enticknap   Society Activity   Impact Line Printers - an ICL Perspective Tony Wix   Letters to the Editor       Number 23 New Year 2000 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap   News Round-up   The BTM Calculators Lorin Knight   IBM 360 Architecture and Microprogramming Ivor Jones   IBM 360 input and output Michael Flinders   Letters to the Editor   Computing anniversaries in 2000   Society Activity       Number 22 Summer 1999 News Round-up Cambridge's Golden Jubilee Nicholas Enticknap   BTM's First Steps Into Computing Raymond 'Dickie' Bird   Getting Stevenage up to Speed Mike Forrest   Obituary: Charlie Portman Chris Burton   Letters to the Editor   Society Activity       Number 21 spring 1999 News Round-up The Spread Committee Sir John Fairclough   The ICT 1301 Series Hamish Carmichael   Developing Software for the 1900 Peter Hunt   More on the EMI Business Machine Stewart Hine   CCS Collection Policy   Society Activity   Bombe Rebuild Project - Appeal for More Help       Number 20 Summer 1998 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor   News Round-up   CCS Collection Policy   Computing's Golden Jubilee Nicholas Enticknap   The Original Original Program Geoff Tootill   The Thinking Behind the IBM 360 Peter Titman   The Argus Computer and Process Control Maurice Gribble   Obituary: Peter Hunt   Society Activity       Number 19 Spring 1998 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor News Round-up   CCS Collection Policy   The Unicom Project Peter Hall Early Chinese Computers Quiangnan Sun Keeping the 1900 Competitive Virgilio Pasquali Obituary: John Pinkerton David Caminer Book Reviews   Society Activity   Bombe Rebuild Project - Appeal for Help   Letters to the Editor       Number 18 Autumn 1997 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor News Round-up   The KDF9 Computer - 30 Years On Bob Beard The Dawn of Chinese Computing Quiangnan Sun The Technological Evolution of the 1900 Range Brian Procter Historical Jottings   Society Activity   Letters to the Editor       Number 17 Spring 1997 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor   News Round-up   What Might Have Been Maurice Richardson   The Prehistory of the 1900 Series Arthur Humphreys   Mathematics and Software at Leo Computers John Gosden   Obituary: Ernest Lenaerts   Obituary: Gordon Scarrott   Society Activity       Number 16 Christmas 1996 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor   News Round-up   Anniversaries in 1997   Evolution of the Zebra Willem van der Poel   How the ICT 1900 Series Evolved Hugh Devonald and Derek Eldridge   Early Computer Developments at EMI Ron Clayden   Book Reviews Nicholas Enticknap, Editor   Society Activity       Number 15 Summer 1996 News Round-up   Society Activity Chris Burton   Systems Analysis for Business Applications Frank Land   System Design - Then and Now John Aris   Linear Programming and all that Robin Judd   Letters to the Editor       Number 14 Winter 1995/96 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor   News Round-up   Piece of Babbage History Sold Doron Swade   Deuce - its life and times Jeremy Walker   Telephone Traffic and Other Hobbies Don Hunter   Experiences with Pegasus Donald Kershaw   Letters to the Editor       Number 13 Autumn 1995 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor   News Round-up   The Transition from Valves to Transistors RL Grimsdale   Information Engineering:    Exactly Where Are We? Gordon G Scarrott   How We Made Atlas Useable David Howarth   Letters to the Editor       Number 12 Summer 1995 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor   Guest Editorial Frank Sumner   Society News Tony Sale, Secretary   Determining the Age of the    Manchester Pegasus Ken Turner   The Phillips Economic Computer Doron Swade   From Torsional Mode Delay Lines to DAP Gordon G Scarrott   Early Computer Use by Structural    Engineers Doug Brewster   Historic Computer Music Chris Burton   Letters to the Editor   Working Party Reports       Number 11 Winter 1994 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor  Guest Editorial Andrew St Johnston  Society News Tony Sale, Secretary  Progress at Bletchley Park Chris Burton  Memories of the Zebra Don Hunter  Evolution of the Powers Samas PCC drum John Bauldreay  British Computer Industry -    Success Or Failure? Nicholas Enticknap  Letters to the Editor   Working Party Reports       Number 10 Summer 1994 Society News Tony Sale, Secretary   Evolution of the Ace drum system Fred Osborne   Memories of the Manchester Mark I Frank Sumner  Ferranti in the 1950s Charlie Portman  Very early computer music Donald Davies  Obituary: John Gray Doron Swade  Book Review - the Leo story   Letters to the Editor   Letters Extra - on identifying Pegasi   Working Party Reports       Number 9 Spring 1994 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor Guest Editorial Brian Oakley  Society News Tony Sale, Secretary  Determining the Age of a Pegasus Chris Burton  Memories of the Pilot Ace Ted Newman  Russian computing: back from Siberia Doron Swade  After the Elliott 400 Series Hugh McGregor Ross  Working Party Reports       Number 8 Winter 1993 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor  Guest Editorial Peter Hall, Chairman, North West Branch  The CCS branches out Dan Hayton, Treasurer  Obituary: Ted Newman   Obituary: Bernard Swann Hugh McGregor Ross  Early computer development at NPL Donald Davies  The coming of mix and match hardware Robin Shirley   NRDC's role in the early British computer industry John Crawley  Working Party Reports   Letters to the Editor       Number 7 Autumn 1993 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor Guest Editorial Sandy Douglas, Committee member Society news Tony Sale, Secretary The CCS and the Science Museum - what now? Doron Swade Obituary: John Cooper Chris Burton The Problems of Software Conservation Doron Swade George Alfred Julius and his Automatic Totalisator Charles Norrie The design of Pegasus Ian Merry Working Party Reports   Letters to the Editor       Number 6 Summer 1993 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor Guest Editorial Graham Morris, Chairman The Society's Archives Harold Gearing, Archivist 40 Years of the Elliott 401 Tony Sale The Enigma of Bletchley Park   Recollections of the Elliott 400 series Laurence Clarke Thirty Years of Databases Peter King A Pioneer Initiative in School Computing Peter Excell Letters to the Editor       Number 5 Spring 1993 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor Guest Opinion Maurice Wilkes Society News Tony Sale, Secretary The Williams Tube Revisited Tony Sale Andrew Booth's Computers at Birkbeck College Andrew Colin The Origins of Packet Switching Derek Barber Altair and After: the Original PC Revolution Robin Shirley Letters to the Editor   Working Party Reports       Number 4 Summer 1992 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor Guest Opinion Director, The National Museum of Science and Industry Society News Tony Sale, Secretary The early days of Algol Nicholas Enticknap and Pat Woodroffe The influence of Alan Blumlein on early computers Ted Newman The pre-history of the Digital Equipment Corporation Adrian Johnstone Early computers at Manchester University   Miscellany   Working Party Reports       Number 3 Spring 1991 Editorial Nicholas Enticknap, Editor Society News Tony Sale, Secretary Open Day and Evening Reception Nicholas Enticknap, Editor A gentle introduction to 1940s electronics Anthony Sale The Young person's Guide to The Elliott 803B Adrian Johnstone Miscellany Nicholas Enticknap, Editor Working Party Reports       Number 2 Autumn 1990 Comment Nicholas Enticknap, Editor Society news Tony Sale, Secretary The thinking behind EDSAC Maurice Wilkes Designing a computer for data processing John Pinkerton From Cathode Ray Tube to Ferranti Mark I Tom Kilburn Evolution of the ACE Donald Davies ACE hardware David Clayden Working party reports   Letters to the editor   Skills and Objects Wanted       Number 1 May 1990 Comment Ewart Willey, Chairman Society news Tony Sale, Secretary Working Parties and restoration work   Computer Conservation Society - birth... 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