Various graphics re’50 years of Computing’

April 12th

Elliott 803B (circa 1962) at the National Museum of Computing

Elliott 803 installation: BCS Computer Conservation Group picture

Elliott 803 Console

Elliott 803 console: maybe a better picture

Elliott 803: printed circuit boards with ‘real’ components

http://www.tnmoc.org/videos-elliott.aspx for more Elliott 803 videos

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/CCS/res/res03.htm#e Young person’s guide to the Elliott 803B

Refers to the NCCS’ ‘Steam Days’ which are Saturdays

Elliott 803 tape deck:Modified film-handling hardware

Elliott 803 manuals:Tony Hoare was largely responsible for Elliott ALGOL, a subset of ALGOL 60 … cf his Turing Award Lecture in the CACM

ICL 1904S at Swansea University

ICL 1904S at Salford University

ICL 1904S CPU #649 back panel at QMC London

ICL 1904S at Swansea University

Robert Noyce’s first integrated circuit was 1961(1965) Transistors on a chip doubling every two years: has held since thenAdded to that transistors were getting quicker 2x power per 18 months

50 years = 2^25 multiple of transistors per chip … = x 32m