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Harwell replaces their IBM 370/165 with an IBM 370/168.

In May 1975, the Chairman of SRC made the decision to close the Atlas Computer Laboratory. The arguments were approximately:

SRC is short of money
Money can be saved by moving all Particle Physics research to the Rutherford Laboratory and closing the particle physics facility at Daresbury
That leaves Daresbury short of a role so the science-related activities of the Atlas Computer Laboratory would move to Daresbury
The 1906A computer together with the share of the 360/195 used by the Atlas Computer Laboratory would be taken over by the Rutherford Laboratory and the Atlas service run as part of the Rutherford service.
The Engineering Board of SRC wants to start a new initiative with regard to interactive facilities for engineers and this should be put in place by the systems staff of the Atlas Computer Laboratory as part of a new National Computer Centre to be established at Chilton together with some engineering-related facilities of the Department of Trade and Industry.
Chilton would become a federal site with a Site Director and the Interactive Facility having a Director that reported to the Site Director.

This new arrangement meant that discussion of a new computer at the Atlas Computer Laboratory became moot as it no longer existed.