Title: A Search Through the Bins of Computer History a.k.a. Proposed Computers: Several Design Projects that never left the Drawing Board Speaker: David Eglin Date: Tue 17th January 2017 Time: 17:00 for 17:30 Location: Conference room of the Royal Northern College of Music, Booth St East M13 9RD

About the seminar

A look at computers, that for one reason or another, never made it to market. Starting, of course, with Babbage who I contend had a problem with the Zeitgeist. Then an ass with a problem. We find mega-projects to big to succeed or heading down the wrong path. Then there are two beautifully designed small machines that, at the time, we knew existed but had no details. Eventually Moore’s law takes over and leads to an interesting way to protect credit cards.

About the speaker

David started work with AEI Automation in Knutsford. He then joined Ferranti / ICL at West Gorton for 20 years during which time he worked on Design Automation, 1900 Processor design and became project manager on a number of mainframe designs. He went on to work at Lattice Logic with John Gray in Edinburgh providing CAD tools for the design of silicon systems, and finished his time in electronics with ES2 in London.