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.

Subscriptions

Members of the CCS who are also BCS members receive a free printed copy of the Society journal Resurrection four times a year as do any CCS members aged 60 and over who are also former-BCS members of at least five years’ standing. CCS members who qualify for a printed copy by virtue of their past BCS membership should contact the editor to claim their entitlement. Sadly our membership records are insufficient to enable us to identify you.

Once you are registered for a “former-member” copy there is no need to renew each year.

Other CCS members are invited to subscribe to printed copies of Resurrection for the modest sum of £10.00 for four issues. Goto https://forms.bcs.org/ccs-resurrection-journal/ to subscribe for Issues 103–106. This uses the BACS transfer system or (for members without access to UK banking facilities) the SWIFT system.

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In any event you may read Resurrection online here and not receive a printed copy.

Resurrection online

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Online issues

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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 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 CSIRACBill 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 ShirleyPeta 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 2020Dan 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 IntroductionDik 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 ControllerPeter 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 MachineVirgillio 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 6Andrew Herbert
Book Review: Charles & Ada : The Computer’s most Passionate Partnership8 Dik Leatherdale
The Flexipede RevisitedKate 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 LEOJohn Aeberhard
Book Review: Early Computing in Britain Ferranti Ltd. and Government Funding 1948 – 1958 Chris Burton
The Potrzebie System of Weights and MeasuresDik 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 OrionPeter Hall
Before Moore's LawBrian Wichmann
Obituary: John GosdenDavid 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 StoryAlan Thomson
Timesharing History: an UpdateJohn 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 ProjectPeter Hall
Early Chinese ComputersQuiangnan Sun
Keeping the 1900 Competitive Virgilio Pasquali
Obituary: John PinkertonDavid 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 OnBob Beard
The Dawn of Chinese ComputingQuiangnan Sun
The Technological Evolution of the 1900 RangeBrian 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... Nicholas Enticknap, Editor of Resurrection
....and christening  
Computer Conservation and Curatorship Doron Swade, Curator of Computing, Science Museum
ICL and the British computer industry Dr Martin Campbell-Kelly, Chairman Software Working Party
Making Pegasus Fly John Cooper, Chairman Pegasus Working Party
The Young Person's Guide to ... The PDP-8 Dr Adrian Johnstone, Chairman DEC Working Party
Skills and Objects Wanted  


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