The Atlas Computer Committee did not cease to exist for quite some time.
However, on the 1st September 1975, Jack Howlett retired and the Atlas Laboratory's functions were split between the Rutherford Laboratory and the Daresbury Laboratory.
The Science Board activities with 45 man-years of effort were moved to the Daresbury Laboratory.
Another 55 man-years of effort were agreed to deliver the new Engineering Board Interactive Computing Facility if it was approved by Council in November 1975.
The remainder of the effort (another 50 man-years) was to be absorbed by the Rutherford Laboratory in providing a central computing service.
The information in the section contain some of the papers that were released defining these decisions, the reactions of the Atlas Computer Committee, and transcripts of the talk by Professor Edwards, SRC Chairman, giving his reasons for the decision and the talk by Dr Stafford, Head of the Rutherford Laboratory, to the Atlas Staff on the day that the Atlas Laboratory ceased to exist.
The timeline below gives an approximate timeline for computing on the Chilton site before and after the Atlas Laboratory existed.
