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