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Leeds Before Andrew

Leeds Before Andrew. The man - not the CMU file system. 1957. A truly vintage year. Six Universities purchase computers. Born in1957. European Union Scalextrics British Computer Society. Lyons Corner House 1957 ??. Developed LEO computers first business use of computers - worldwide

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Leeds Before Andrew

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  1. Leeds Before Andrew The man - not the CMU file system

  2. 1957 • A truly vintage year

  3. Six Universities purchase computers

  4. Born in1957 • European Union • Scalextrics • British Computer Society

  5. Lyons Corner House1957 ?? • Developed LEO computers • first business use of computers - worldwide • The only Lyons Corner House outside the London area was in Leeds

  6. Seymour Cray and CDC • Control Data Corporation was founded by William C. Morris and a group of engineers (amongst whom Seymour Cray) from Sperry Rand ECMWFCRAY-1

  7. Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) • founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson. • PDP-1 computer

  8. FORTRAN-1 is formally published • John Backus led the IBM team

  9. From the History of Computing Project websitehttp://www.thocp.net/ • Verbatim:“A first attempt to immitatie human intelligence in a simulacron is attempted by Herbert.” • No further explanation is offered

  10. Milestones in Leeds

  11. 1957 Electronic Computing Laboratory

  12. 1957 Pegasus • installed in Eldon Chapel • Known as Lucifer

  13. Operators’ Manual for Pegasus

  14. Useful operating instructions

  15. KDF9 • 1962? KDF9 installed in Eldon Chapel • 1965 Flowers Report • 1966 KDF9 upgraded and moved to Computer Block

  16. 1966 First Undergraduates(Combined Studies)

  17. 1968 Eldon2 service starts • 192 Kbytes core store 6S cycle time • 24 Mbytes hard disk - seek time 300 mS • PDP-8 communications processor • 32 teletype terminals • response OK up to about 26 logged on users

  18. ICL 1906A • 1972 ICL1906A installed • 1972 KDF9 switches to student role • George 3 (later George 4)

  19. THIS IS GEORGE 3 MARK 8.67 ON 31DEC99 10.19.03_ TIMED OUT 10.19.33 THE SYSTEM HAS TEMPORARILY CLOSED DOWN

  20. Milestones UCS / ISS • 1979/12/29 Amdahl V7 with VM/CMS • 1975 Wells report - JANET - e-mail • 1984 JANET starts on 1st April • 1984 upgrade to Amdahl 580 • 1990 UNIX - Sun, SG, HP • 1990 PCs - DOS • 1990s UCS/Admin DP merged to form ISS • 1992 WWW

  21. Students 1968 freshers - 40% female

  22. More students 1968? - 31.5% female over the 3 pictures

  23. Students socialising

  24. Students socialising

  25. Recollections of Andrew • Not a shrinking violet • Not lacking in confidence • Not one to shirk a challenge • Not afraid of the unconventional

  26. Algol68 on 1906A • World’s first Algol68 compiler • 1970s saw rapid development in programming languages • Perhaps the first Leeds undergraduate to explore the language

  27. Final Year project onAnalogue Computer Perhaps the last Leeds undergraduateto work on the machine

  28. Andrew J Herbert

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