Chilton Atlas: 1963-1973

SRC need to cut £8 million from budget due to Swiss/UK Exchange Rate Variation
Close Atlas Laboratory
Science Board
- Daresbury to just support Science Board Activities
- 45 Atlas man years moved to Daresbury.
- Science Board vector processing support from there
Central Computing
- 50 Atlas man years transfered to Rutherford to run the FR80 and 1906A
Engineering Board
- 55 Atlas man years to set up new Interactive Computing Facility for University Engineers
National Federal Computing Campus at Chilton
- Interactive Computing Facility
- DTI to move Cambridge CAD Centre to Chilton by 1977
- Other DTI-funded facilities to follow
Result:
- 4 Atlas staff moved to Daresbury
- 1906A was eventually shut down in 1978
- National Federal Computing Campus quietly forgotten
- Atlas and Rutherford merge