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Leeds Before Andrew
The man - not the CMU file system
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1957
• A truly vintage year
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Six Universities purchase computers
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Born in1957
• European Union
• Scalextrics
• British Computer Society
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Lyons Corner House1957 ??
• Developed LEO computers
• first business use of computers - worldwide
• The only Lyons Corner House outside the London area was in Leeds
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Seymour Cray and CDC
• Control Data Corporation was founded by William C. Morris and a group of engineers (amongst whom Seymour Cray) from Sperry Rand
ECMWFCRAY-1
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Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
• founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson.
• PDP-1 computer
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FORTRAN-1 is formally published
• John Backus led the IBM team
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From the History of Computing Project website
http://www.thocp.net/
• Verbatim:“A first attempt to immitatie human intelligence in a simulacron is attempted by Herbert.”
• No further explanation is offered
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Milestones in Leeds
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1957 Electronic Computing Laboratory
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1957 Pegasus• installed in Eldon Chapel
• Known as Lucifer
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Operators’ Manual for Pegasus
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Useful operating instructions
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KDF9
• 1962? KDF9 installed in Eldon Chapel
• 1965 Flowers Report
• 1966 KDF9 upgraded and moved to Computer Block
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1966 First Undergraduates(Combined Studies)
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1968 Eldon2 service starts
• 192 Kbytes core store 6S cycle time
• 24 Mbytes hard disk - seek time 300 mS
• PDP-8 communications processor
• 32 teletype terminals
• response OK up to about 26 logged on users
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ICL 1906A
• 1972 ICL1906A installed
• 1972 KDF9 switches to student role
• George 3 (later George 4)
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THIS IS GEORGE 3 MARK 8.67 ON 31DEC9910.19.03_
TIMED OUT 10.19.33
THE SYSTEM HAS TEMPORARILY CLOSED DOWN
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Milestones UCS / ISS
• 1979/12/29 Amdahl V7 with VM/CMS
• 1975 Wells report - JANET - e-mail
• 1984 JANET starts on 1st April
• 1984 upgrade to Amdahl 580
• 1990 UNIX - Sun, SG, HP
• 1990 PCs - DOS
• 1990s UCS/Admin DP merged to form ISS
• 1992 WWW
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Students1968 freshers - 40% female
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More students1968? - 31.5% female over the 3 pictures
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Students socialising
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Students socialising
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• Not a shrinking violet
• Not lacking in confidence
• Not one to shirk a challenge
• Not afraid of the unconventional
Recollections of Andrew
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Algol68 on 1906A
• World’s first Algol68 compiler
• 1970s saw rapid development in programming languages
• Perhaps the first Leeds undergraduate to explore the language
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Perhaps the last Leeds undergraduateto work on the machine
Final Year project onAnalogue Computer
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Andrew J Herbert