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Overview □ High speed automatic calculating machines (Cambridge, 1949) □ Automatic Digital Computation (NPL, 1953) □ Applications of computers (Nottingham, 1958) □ Mercury Autocode (1961) □ Stretch/IBM 7030 MCP user's guide (1960) □ Stretch manual for S2 Fortran (1964) □ The Flowers report (1966) □ GINO3 manual (1967, PDF) □ GINO3 manual (1967, HTML) □ TREE-META (Engelbart, English, Rulifson 1968) □ Computer Processing Speeds (Nottingham, Wichmann, 1977)

Further reading □ Preface □ Contents □ Attendees □ 3 Arithmetic Unit □ 4 Storage □ 5 I/O □ 6 Control □ 7 Programmer □ 8 Strategy □ 10 Error Protection □ 13 Linear Algebra □ 14 Data Processing □ 16 Autocoding □ 17 Computing Systems □ 18 Computer Service □ 19 Computing Centre □ 20 Ferranti Brochures □ 21 Elliott Brochure □ 22 English Electric Brochure □ 23 Leo Brochures

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⟶ ACL ⟶ Literature ⟶ Manuals ⟶ Applications of Computers 1958 :: Application of Computers, University of Nottingham 15-19 September 1958

⟶ ACL ⟶ Literature ⟶ Manuals ⟶ Applications of Computers 1958 :: Application of Computers, University of Nottingham 15-19 September 1958

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Applications Associates Literature Society Technology Software revisited

Early history □ Minutes of committee meetings □ Progress reports □ Other reports □ News cuttings □ In-house publications □ Committee papers □ Personal recollections □ ACL publications □ Books □ Early Atlas publications □ FR80 reports □ Atlas manuals □ ICL1906A manuals □ Other manuals

Overview □ High speed automatic calculating machines (Cambridge, 1949) □ Automatic Digital Computation (NPL, 1953) □ Applications of computers (Nottingham, 1958) □ Mercury Autocode (1961) □ Stretch/IBM 7030 MCP user's guide (1960) □ Stretch manual for S2 Fortran (1964) □ The Flowers report (1966) □ GINO3 manual (1967, PDF) □ GINO3 manual (1967, HTML) □ TREE-META (Engelbart, English, Rulifson 1968) □ Computer Processing Speeds (Nottingham, Wichmann, 1977)

Preface

In September 1958, the University of Nottingham organised a residential Applications of Computers Conference at Hugh Stewart Hall.

Dr Howlett of the Harwell Computing Group gave a talk on Autocoding.

On Dr Howlett's death, his wife, Joan, passed a number of Jack's papers to RAL for safe keeping. Most of the papers that were given out to delegates are included here together with a set of brochures that were handed out to Attendees.

Ten years earlier, at the University of Cambridge, the first Computer Conference in the UK took place, also attended by Dr Howlett. A second national conference was held in Manchester, 9th to 12th July 1951 and a third was held at NPL, Symposium on Automatic Digital Computation, 25th-28th March 1953. By 1958, the computer scene was well established and the Nottingham Conference was aimed at businesses who would benefit from the use and/or ownership of a computer.

Hugh Stewart Hall

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Conference Programme

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The object of the course was to introduce Engineers and Executives to Digital Computers and their applications. The course ran from the morning of Monday, 15th September, 1958 until Friday evening.

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