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Dr Howlett's Notes

Dr Howlett

1/5/1961

History to May 1961

This is a very approximate transcription of some Notes in Dr Howlett's handwriting that gave some background up until May 1961 of Atlas-related events. Almost certainly there are some minor errors and wrong transcriptions.

November 1956: Jack Howlett (JH), Bill Morton (KWM), Allan Curtis (ARC) and John Cockroft(JC) discuss future computing needs
January 1957: Correspondence between JH and Lord Halsbury (NRDC)
April 1957: Harwell Conference
February 1958: Second Harwell Conference
June-July 1958: NRDC-Ferranti
March 1959: Ferranti presentation of Orion and Atlas
April 1959: visit re STRETCH
August 1959: visit to Ferranti re Atlas
October 1959: CPC discussion re Atlas
January 1960: Howlett/Joliffe Paper
January 1960: AWRE re STRETCH
February-August 1960: CPC discussion
September 1960: Turnbull Committee (Minister for Science)
November-December 1960: Discussions AEA, CPC, Minister for Science re Atlas Purchase
February 1961: AEA-NIRNS-Treasury Discussion
March 1961: Treasury instruct AEA to start contractual discussion
April 1961: Meeting with Ferranti

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