Engineering Board activities at RAL included the publishing of regular newsletters throughout the life of the programme. These were:
ECN's 60 issues covered the life of Informatics Department and but were withdrawn by EPSRC Engineering Board as central support was completed. We have managed to find copies of all the Newsletters apart from issues 53 and 54. If anybody has those still, it would be of interest to us.
GN was produced as part of the activities of the Advisory Group on Computer Graphics (AGOCG) which was funded by the Research Councils and the Computer Board. By 1993, the importance of visualisation resulted in a change of name to Graphics and Visualisation (GVN). GN/GVN's 63 issues probably made it the longest running newsletter issued by the various computing departments at Chilton.
Some of the information at the back of each Newsletter has not been repeated here when there has been no change from the previous issue. Many articles gave a contact name, address and phone number which do not have much relevance now so have also been omitted.
Space was always at a premium in the Newsletter as the aim was to keep it to 8 or 12 pages. Where additional relevant photographs exist, we have added them at the appropriate positions.
Most Newsletters were sent out with a set of flyers which mainly gave more detail of specific events.
Informatics also produced its own internal newsletter of which we have some issues from 1986 to 1989.
