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Title
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Speaker(s)
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18th May 2023
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QR Codes for Beginners
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Tony Davies
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20th mon 2022
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Kathleen Booth – UK Computer Pioneer
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Roger Johnson
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16th Mar 2023
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Programming an ICT 1900 – and how we wrote Maximop for QMC’s ICL 1905E.
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Arthur Dransfield
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2022-2023 Season
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16th Feb 2023
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The Mobile Revolution: the Early Days of Cellular 1983 – 1993. A Personal View.
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John Carrington
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31st Jan 2023
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The evolution of digital cellular data communications
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Andy Sutton
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19th Jan 2023
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The Birth of the Barcode
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Derrick Brown
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11th Nov 2022
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Edinburgh Multi Access System (EMAS)
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Bob Eager
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24th Oct 2022
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Singer System Ten – ICL’s Surprise Success Story.
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John Panter + Alan Wakefield & Mike Knight
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2021-2022 Season
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19th May 2022
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Investigating the Work and Life of Percy Ludgate (1883-1922)
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Brian Randell
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21st Apr 2022
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A mathematical machine: Max Newman and early computing at Manchester, 1946 - 1951
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Simon Lavington
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17th Mar 2022
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Four (or more) Interesting Enigma-like Crypto Machines
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Jerry McCarthy
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17th Feb 2022
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Learning from History: Reflections on past and future of the British IT Industry
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Dr Sam Blaxland, John Carrington & Dr Tom Abram
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6th Jan 2022
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Internet, the Early Days
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Vint Cerf
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18th Nov 2021
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The Origins of GENESYS, the General Engineering System (Part 2)
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Brian Shearing
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21st Oct 2021
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Digitising Hollywood – the Development of Digital Recording for Cinema
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Delwyn Holroyd
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16th Sep 2021
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Investigating the Work and Life of Percy Ludgate (1883-1922)
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Brian Randell
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2020-2021 season
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20th May 2021
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Historiography of the History of Computing
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Doron Swade
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15th Apr 2021
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Cash and Dash: How ATMs and Computers Changed Banking
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Bernardo Batiz-Lazo
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18th Mar 2021
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A world first! Early real-time systems in the 1960s steel industry — the technology, the developers and the users.
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Geoff Henderson
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18th Feb 2021
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What do you get when you try to build a global communications technology using snail mail?
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David Grier
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02nd Feb 2021
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The History of ICL Revisited
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Martin Campbell-Kelly
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21st Jan 2021
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Early Australian computer developments including CSIRAC and the work of Trevor Pearcey
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Barbara Ainsworth
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01st Dec 2020
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The Demise of Ferranti
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Prof. John Wilson
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19th Nov 2020
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The Origins of GENESYS, the General Engineering System
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Brian Shearing
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29th Oct 2020
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The Evolution of LEO, the World’s First Business Computer
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John Daines
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21th Sep 2020
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Anecdotes,lessons learned and the rocky thrill of a colourful career and volunteering in the IT Business
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Michael Grant
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2019-2020 Season
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16th Mar 2020
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Universal cryptanalytic machine – a dream come true
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Marek Grajek
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20th Feb 2020
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Alan Turing’s Manchester
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Jonathan Swinton
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16th Jan 2020
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The First Day as a Programmer for the Manchester Mark 1
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Olaf Chedzoy
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21st Nov 2019
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Computing at Jodrell Bank
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Ian Morison
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17th Oct 2019
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Role of Computer Museums and Studying Computer Science
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Jochen Viehoff & Johannes Blobel
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19th Sep 2019
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The History of ICL Revisited
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Martin Campbell-Kelly
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2018-2019 Season
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21st Mar 2019
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Design of Ferranti Argus 400 for Industrial Process Control
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John Steele
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21st Feb 2019
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Olivetti and the Early Italian Computers
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Elisabetta Mori
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17th Jan 2019
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Stardust: tales from the early days of computing, 1948 — 1958
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Simon Lavington
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25th Oct 2018
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Cold War to Coal Trains: TOPS — British Railways’ first computer based train operating system
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Jonathan Aylen
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20th Sep 2018
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1900 Emulation and Software Recovery
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Bill Gallagher, David Holdsworth, Delwyn Holroyd & Brian Spoor
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2017-2018 Season
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17th May 2018
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The Elliott 401 Project
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Rod Brown & Chris Burton
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19th Apr 2018
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Constructing the EDSAC Replica - Lessons Learned
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Andrew Herbert & Chris Burton
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15th Mar 2018
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Founding of the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), its Early Days and its Rôle Today
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Brian Ford & colleagues
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26th Oct 2017
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Bottlenecks and Breakthroughs, a 40 year journey in IT
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David Morriss
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21st Sep 2017
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Software as Heritage and Strategies for its Preservation – and what Computer Sounds have to do with it
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Gerard Alberts
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2016-2017 Season
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23nd May 2017
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Making IT Work Conference — ICL 2966
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Martin Campbell-Kelly and Delwyn Holroyd
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23rd May 2017
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Making IT Work Conference — Air Traffic Control
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Ben Trethowan
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23rd May 2017
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Making IT Work Conference — Colossus
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Phil Hayes
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23rd May 2017
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Making IT Work Conference — Harwell Decatron
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Kevin Murrell
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18th May 2017
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The Joe Lyons Story — Food for Thought
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Neville Lyons
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16th Mar 2017
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Babbage and Lovelace
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Sydney Padua
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16th Feb 2017
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Simulation Models of Historical Computers - Atlas, MU5 and CDC 6600
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Roland Ibbett
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17th Jan 2017
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A Search Through the Bins of Computer History
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David Eglin
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17th Nov 2016
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Sale Award — ENIAC Panel Reconstruction
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Johannes Blobel and Dr Jochen Viehof
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17th Oct 2016
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Marian Rejewski’s Cyklometer
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Jerry McCarthy
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22nd Sep 2016 |
Crises and Lessons from the History of Software. |
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Martyn Thomas |
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2015-2016 Season
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11th May 2016
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The History of ENIAC in three Programs
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Mark Priestley
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27th Apr 2016
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The HEC1 Story
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Kevin Murrell, Delwyn Holroyd and Roger Johnson
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17th Mar 2016
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Proposed Computers: Several Design Projects that never left the Drawing Board
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David Eglin
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18th Feb 2016
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Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace: Two Visions of Computing, or, Ada Lovelace, why the fuss?
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Doron Swade
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21st Jan 2016
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The Unknown Alan Turing
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Sir John Dermot Turing
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19th Nov 2015
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The History of Primary Care Computing
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Primary Health Specialist Group
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22nd Oct 2015
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Colossus in Detail
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Chris Shore
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22nd Sep 2015
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Development of Satellite Navigation Technology
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Air Commodore Norman Bonnar
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17th Sep 2015
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Mechanisation of Calculation
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Prof. Alain Guyot
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2014-2015 Season
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16th Apr 2015
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Materialisations of Logic Machines
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Rainer Glaschick
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15th Jan 2015
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The ICL 2903 Development Story
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John Harper
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20th Nov 2014
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The Three Rs of Software Preservation: Rescue, Retention and Relevance
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David Holdsworth
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16th Oct 2014
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Computer Conservation and Museums: Fight or Flight?
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Doron Swade
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2013-2014 Season
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15th May 2014
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Computing before Computers - From Counting Board to Slide Rule
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David Eglin
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10th April 2014
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The History of Computing in Colour
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Martin Campbell-Kelly
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13th Mar 2014
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Structured Software and the Break with Electrical Engineers
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David Grier
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20th Feb 2014
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The EDSAC Replica
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Andrew Herbert
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16th Jan 2014
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The Harwell Dekatron
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Kevin Murrell
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12th Dec 2013
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The Antikythera Mechanism
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Tony Freeth
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21st Nov 2013
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Which came first - the Code or the Computer
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Jochen Viehoff
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17th Oct 2013
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Ada Lovelace
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James Essinger
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2012-2013 Season
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16th May 2013
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Babbage’s Analytical Engine
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Doron Swade
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18st Apr 2013
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CAP - The Last Cambridge Computer
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Andrew Herbert
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21st Mar 2013
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The Atlas Story 1956 to 1976
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Simon Lavington
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21st Feb 2013
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A History of Information Retrieval
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Keith van Rijsbergen
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17th Jan 2013
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Early Ferranti Bracknell Computers
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Peter Niblett
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15th Nov 2012
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The History of Machine Translation
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John Hutchins
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18th Oct 2012
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Conserving the past for the future - Data, Websites and Software
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Tim Gollins, Jeremy Leighton John & David Holdsworth
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20th Sep 2012
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Adapting and Innovating the Development of IT Law
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Rachel Burnett
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2011-2012 Season
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17th May 2012
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Alan Turing - Computer Designer
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Brian Carpenter
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19th Apr 2012
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Centring the Computer in the Business of Banking: Barclays Bank and Technological Change, 1954-1974
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Ian Martin & David Parsons
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15th Mar 2012
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Turing and his Contemporaries
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Simon Lavington
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16th Feb 2012
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Bloodhound on my trail: building the Ferranti Argus process control computer
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Jonathan Aylen
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19th Jan 2012
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Misplaced Ingenuity, some dead ends in Computer History
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Hamish Carmichael
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17th Nov 2011
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The Emergence of Computer Science in France
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Pierre Mounier-Kuhn
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20th Oct 2011
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A Tribute to Sir Maurice Wilkes
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David Hartley and others
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2010-2011 Season
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19th May 2011
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Early Computers in Air Traffic Control
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John Smith, Neville Evans, and Ben Trethowan
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21st Apr 2011
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The Story of Elliott-Automation, 1946 - 1986
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Simon Lavington
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17th Mar 2011
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Earthquake or Explosion - Computers in Seismology applied to Test-Ban Verification
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Alan Douglas
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17th Feb 2011
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The Evolution of Hard Disk Drives
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Neil Macphail
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20th Jan 2011
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Homo sapiens, cultural evolution and computing - a perspective
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George Mallen
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18th Nov 2010 |
Konrad Zuse and the Origins of The Computer |
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Horst Zuse |
28th Oct 2010 |
Tales of the Unexpected: an alternative history of the computing industry |
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Bill Thompson and John Naughton |
16th Sep 2010 |
Research Machines |
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John Leighfield |
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2009-2010 Season
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27th May 2010
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The Harwell Dekatron Computer (Wolverhampton version)
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Kevin Murrell
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20th May 2010
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Pegasus @ 50
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Chris Burton and others from the CCS
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15th Apr 2010
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Software Development at Hursley: the first 35 Years and beyond
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Geoffrey Sharman and Andy Krasun
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18th Mar 2010
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The Harwell Dekatron Computer
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Kevin Morrell and Tony Frazer
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18th Feb 2010
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The CDC 6600 Computer
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Dik Leatherdale and John Fernbank
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14th Jan 2010
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50 years of Advanced Programming - an Anniversary Seminar on Algol 60
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Mike Woodger, Professor Brian Randell, Richard Bornat, Brian Wichmann, David Holdsworth, and Peter Onion.
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15th Oct 2009
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The ICT 1300 Computer
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Rod Brown
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17th Sep 2009
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The History of Communications – from Telephones to Data Communications Networks
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David Parsons
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2008-2009 Season
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14th May 2009
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The BBC Domesday Book Project and its Legacy
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George Auckland, Peter Armstrong, Andy Finney, and David Holdsworth
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23rd Apr 2009
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JANET - The first 25 years
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Bob Day, Tim Marshall, Roland Rosner, and Shirley Wood
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12th Mar 2009
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The Archaeology of Very Early Algorithms, 1948-58. Christopher Strachey's Love Letter Generator
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David Link
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19th Feb 2009
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Seminar on EMI Computers - A Reminder
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Keith Crook, Michael Knight, David Robinson, and Alan Thomson
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15th Jan 2009
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The ICL - Fujitsu Technology Collaboration
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Tom Hinchliffe and John Vernon
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16th Oct 2008
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A Life with Databases
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Charles Bachman
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11th Sep 2008
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The Legacy of LEO in Business Applications - a tribute to David Caminer
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Peter Hermon, Frank Land, Mike Forrest, Hilary Caminer, Georgina Ferry, Ninian Eadie, Gilbert Foix, John Aris, David Harvey
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2007-2008 Season
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17th Apr 2008
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The NAG Library – The Continuing Story
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Brian Ford and Steve Hague
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20th Mar 2008
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The BBC Micro and its Legacy - a special CCS seminar
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John Radcliffe, George Auckland, Steve Furber, Mike Bostock and others
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21st Feb 2008
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BEACON Transaction Processing System - a design ahead of its time?
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Michael Knight
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17th Jan 2008
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Computers in Publishing - 40 eventful years
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David Penfold, Conrad Taylor, and David Brailsford
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18th Oct 2007
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Some CAFS Applications
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Hamish Carmichael & Martin Wright
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20th Sep 2007 |
Titan: The Poor Man's ATLAS? |
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David Hartley |
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2004-2005 Season
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24th Feb 2005
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Some Early Applications (Lyons and LEO)
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Hugh McGregor-Ross, Janet Delve, Frank Land
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2003-2004 Season
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20th Nov 2003
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The Shocking Truth about Charles Babbage and his Calculating Engines
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Doron Swade
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29th Oct 2003
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The Ferranti Orion Computer
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Frank Taylor, Ted Braunholz, Malcolm Bigg, Mark Roach, Gordon Harvey
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2000-2001 Season
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17th May 2001
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Pegasus Open Day
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Sir John Fairclough, Simon Lavington, Hugh Devonald, George Felton, Donald S. Davis, Judith Milledge, Chris Burton & Peter Hall
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11th Dec 2000
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Punched Card Calulators etc.
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Hamish Carmichael and four others
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1999-2000 Season
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20th or 27th Apr 2000
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The ICT 1301 Computer
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Frank Townsend and others
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1998-1999 Season
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24th Jun 1999
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Bletchley Experiences
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Donald Michie
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1997-1998 Season
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6th Nov 1997
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Early History of the UK Software Industry
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Barney Gibbons and others
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1996-1997 Season
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31st Oct 1996
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The Colossus Codebreaker and the Colossus Rebuild
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Tony Sale
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1995-1996 Season
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30th May 1996
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The Development of IBM
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Chris Hipwell (chair) and various others
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30th May 1996
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The ICT/ICL 1900 Range
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11 Speakers - Devonald, Eldridge. Humphries ....
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1994-1995 Season
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13th Dec 1994
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Valves to Transistors
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Dick Grimsdale
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1992-1993 Season
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28th Jan 1993
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ICL CAFS
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Vic Maller
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16th Dec 1992
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Databases
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Peter King
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The Society is in the process of publishing recordings of other early lectures which require
transcription from early formats.
This may take some time.
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In addition to the recordings of lectures and seminars, the Society has a number of other
recordings which are listed below.
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Other Recordings
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?? ??? 1994
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Memories
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???? ???????
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?? ??? 1992
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ICT at the Business Efficiency Exhibition (BEE)
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