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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