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| Will_D:
--- Quote from: awemawson on April 08, 2015, 02:15:28 PM ---The Royal Naval Stores were controlled by our computers, there, and also Rosyth, Portsmouth and Devonport. --- End quote --- Does that mean ICL? |
| awemawson:
--- Quote from: Will_D on April 08, 2015, 05:19:55 PM --- --- Quote from: awemawson on April 08, 2015, 02:15:28 PM ---The Royal Naval Stores were controlled by our computers, there, and also Rosyth, Portsmouth and Devonport. --- End quote --- Does that mean ICL? --- End quote --- No, Ferranti Argus 700. (however the ICL 1900 was the Ferranti Argus 500 architecture in a different physical format when the combination of Ferranti intellectual property, ICT staff and government money formed ICL when ICT were going down the pan) |
| Eugene:
I visited Chatham about ten years ago. I went down to the Local Authority to do a presentation / selling job that was scheduled for an all day session and got the order in about twenty five minutes; exit left smartly! It's an all day job and so not in my opinion a suitable trip out for those who might not be seriously interested, they'd get bored pretty quickly. The rope walk and lofting shed are teriffic, but the highlight for me was the submarine HMS Ocelot. Seriously engineered. Eug |
| John Rudd:
--- Quote from: awemawson on April 08, 2015, 05:27:31 PM --- No, Ferranti Argus 700. --- End quote --- Oh that takes me back to the eighties.....worked on an Argus system when I was at the Barrow gas terminal......strange how it was octal based....well to me anyway.... |
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