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This book charts the take-up of IT in Britain, as seen through the eyes of one company. It examines how the dawn of the digital computer age in Britain took place for different applications, from early government-sponsored work on secret defence projects, to the growth of the market for Elliott computers for civil applications. Features: charts the establishment of Elliott s Borehamwood Research Laboratories, and the roles played by John Coales and Leon Bagrit; examines early Elliott digital computers designed for classified military applications and for GCHQ; describes the analogue computers developed by Elliott-Automation; reviews the development of the first commercial Elliot computers and the growth of applications in industrial automation; includes a history of airborne computers by a former director of Elliott Flight Automation; discusses the computer architectures and systems software for Elliott computers; investigates the mergers, takeovers and eventual closure of the Borehamwood laboratories.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Computing & information technology

• Pełny tytuł: Moving Targets
• Podtytuł: Elliott-Automation and the Dawn of the Computer Age in Britain, 1947-1967
• Autor: Simon H. Lavington
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 710
• EAN: 9781447126362
• ISBN: 144712636X
• ID: 09201111
• Wydawca: Springer London Ltd
• Waga: 1104 g
• Wymiary: 39 × 155 × 38 mm
• Data wydania: 26. September 2014

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