23 Oct
2002
23 Oct
'02
7:59 a.m.
At 05:37 PM 18/10/2002 +1000, Huw Davies wrote:
I've spent quite some time web browsing and the
photos of early Ferranti,
Marconi or ICT (ICL) that I've found don't match my recollections. I'm
still working on the premise that at that time a UK university would have
bought British (and at that time there was probably no good reason not to).
OK, well I finally decided to ask my father who was a lecturer in the
Physics department at Keele at the time (which explains why I got
the guided tour there). He could clearly remember that the computer
belonged to the Chemistry department and with a bit of prompting
he was reasonably sure that it was a Ferranti rather than an
English Electric given that he knew people in both organizations.
When I suggested it could be a Mercury he commented well it was
something like that.
I guess unless someone can come up with better evidence then
I'm going to conclude that the computer was a Ferranti Mercury
and that my recollections of the console are not quite reliable :-)
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