Moving Targets (Record no. 106442)
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| control field | 978-1-84882-933-6 |
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| control field | DE-He213 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781848829336 |
| -- | 978-1-84882-933-6 |
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| Standard number or code | 10.1007/978-1-84882-933-6 |
| Source of number or code | doi |
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| Classification number | QA76.17 |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | U |
| Source | bicssc |
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| Subject category code | TBX |
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| Subject category code | COM080000 |
| Source | bisacsh |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 004.09 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lavington, Simon. |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Moving Targets |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | Elliott-Automation and the Dawn of the Computer Age in Britain, 1947 – 67 / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | by Simon Lavington. |
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| -- | London : |
| -- | Springer London : |
| -- | Imprint: Springer, |
| -- | 2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | XXII, 710p. |
| Other physical details | online resource. |
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| -- | computer |
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| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | History of Computing, |
| International Standard Serial Number | 2190-6831 |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | The Navy Comes to Borehamwood -- A Glint on the Horizon -- The Secret Digit -- Analogue Expertise -- NRDC and the Market -- Process Control and Automation: the Bagrit Vision -- Automation: the Machines and the Applications -- Software and Applications at Borehamwood -- NCR, the 405 and Commercial Data Processing -- Evolution of Elliott Computer Architectures -- EARS and Aerials: Elliott’s Radar Achievements -- Airborne Computing System Developments at Elliott-Automation, 1958 – 1988 -- Mergers, Take-overs and Dispersals -- The End of the Line. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The Elliott-Automation company was an active participant in the birth of the information age in Britain. By 1961, the company was supplying 50% of the digital computers delivered to UK customers in that year. Yet by the end of that decade, Elliott-Automation had effectively disappeared in a flurry of takeovers, leaving little apparent trace of the technical excellence that had once characterised the name Elliott. Moving Targets charts the gradual take-up of information technology in Britain, as seen through the eyes of one innovative company. The book examines how the dawn of the digital computer age in Britain took place at various times for different applications, from early government-sponsored work on secret defence projects, to the growth of the market for Elliott computers for civil applications. Topics and features: Charts the establishment of Elliott’s Borehamwood Research Laboratories in 1946, and the roles played by John Coales and Leon Bagrit in reviving an ailing company Examines early Elliott digital computers designed for classified military applications and for GCHQ, such as the Elliott 152, 153 and OEDIPUS Describes the analogue computers developed by Elliott-Automation, including the giant TRIDAC Reviews the development of the first commercial Elliott computers, the growth of applications in industrial automation, and the competition offered by rival manufacturers in Britain Includes a history of airborne computers up to 1988, written by a former director of Elliott Flight Automation Discusses the evolution of computer architectures and systems software for the Elliott 800, 900 and 4100 series computers Investigates the mergers, takeovers and eventual closure of the Borehamwood laboratories, and the demise of Elliott-Automation and its successors, ICL and GEC This unique text will be of great interest to historians of technology and business, and will also appeal to the general reader curious about the emergence of digital computing in Britain and the work of the previously unsung computer pioneers of the Elliott-Automation laboratories at Borehamwood. Simon Lavington is Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University of Essex. Among his many publications is the book Early British Computers. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Computer science. |
| 650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Computer Science. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | History of Computing. |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Title | Springer eBooks |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Display text | Printed edition: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781848829329 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | History of Computing, |
| -- | 2190-6831 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-933-6 |
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