Overview

Some main Reports produced by ACL people together with others relevant to the Atlas Computer Laboratory are included here. The aim is to build this section up as we come across publications.

• Computing at Harwell 1948-61 by Jack Howlett
• British Tabulating Machine Company's BTM1202
• Dr Howlett's History of the Laboratory, talk 1993
• Alick Glennie's Syntax Machine, an earlier version of the techniques used in the Aldermaston Fortran Compilers used on Stretch and the Atlas II
• Val Schorre's paper on Meta II, a very simple early translator writing system initially used on Atlas
• Excerpt from a book describing the Atlas Laboratory (Anne Denny Angus 1970)
• Go by Jack Good, 1965
• Kalah on Atlas by Alex Bell (played on the main console)
• Interactive Programming at Carnegie Tech by Alan Bond (includes the work done by Bob Hopgood when he was on sabbatical there)
• Design of the Bendix G21 by Jesse Quatse. Interactive Graphics and the Brooker Morris Compiler Compiler ran on the G21
• The Engineeers' Assistant by Mike Baylis
• Chance and Thermal Equilibrium Films
• Hash Table Films
• Hash Table Overflow by Bob Hopgood
• USA Visit 1965 by Bob Churchhouse, Bob Hopgood and Bart Fossey
• The Language of Computers by Lord Bowden
• A Computer for all Purposes by Bob Churchhouse
• USA Visit 1970, Bob Hopgood
• USA Visit 1971, Bob Hopgood
• The Quadratic Hash Method when the table size is a power of 2 by Bob Hopgood
• The Computerised Studio by Stan Hayward
• Computer Applications in the Arts and Sciences, Bob Churchhouse's Inaugural Lecture at Cardiff, 1972
• Computer Animation used as a Tool in Teaching Computer Science by Bob Hopgood, IFIP74
• USA Visit 1975, Bob Hopgood
• IBM Stretch by Edward K. Yasaki, 1982
• FORTRAN - A Comparative Study by P E Bryant and M J Baylis, 1968