presented to the Office Management Association’s Conference in May.
Thompson, T.R. (1955) The Scope for Electronic Computers in the Office, Read More »
Engineering, December 23rd. The paper reflects Thompsons impressions following a tour of computer installations in the USA.
Thompson, T.R. (1955) Diminishing Returns, Read More »
The Computer Journal, British Computer Society, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 106-112.
Thompson, T.R. (1958) ‘Four Years of Automatic Office Work’, Read More »
Internal Audit Practice and External Audit Theory’, The Computer Journal, British Computer Society, Vol. 3, No 1, pp. 10-11.
Thompson, T.R. (1960) ‘Problems of Auditing Computing Data: Read More »
Internal Audit Practice and External Audit Theory’, The Computer Journal, British Computer Society, Vol. 3, No 1, pp. 10-11.
Thompson, T.R. (1960) ‘Problems of Auditing Computing Data: Read More »
The Computer Journal, British Computer Society, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 164-169, paper presented at Automatic Programming Languages for Business and Science held at Northampton College of Advanced Technology, April 1962. See Caldwell review on Dropbox at https://www.dropbox.com/s/08ap89c8n26oxjs/J%20Caldwell%20Report%20Automatic%20Programming%20Conference%201962.docx?dl=0
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/54559/Fundamental-Principles-of-Expressing-a-Procedure-for-a- Computer-Application/:
Leo Archive, National Archive for the History of Computing, Manchester, LEO Computers, see https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/367f3633-3a28-3fa9- 837c-039693dcf8ee for listing of items held at John Rylands Library. As part of the library’s special collections, the Archive is located in the main building of John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Burlington Street (building 18 in the campus map). Note the collection is not digitised and can be viewed by application to the librarian.
Thompson, T.R. and others ‘The LEO Chronicle, Major Events from 1947 to 1962’, Read More »
Bulletin of Computer Conservation Society, Issue 32, New Year. LeoComputers developed the Leo III as a medium size commercial computer, and included timesharing after several members of John Pinkerton’s development team attended the colloquium on the design for Orion timesharing presented by George Felton at the Cambridge Maths Lab. Timesharing was demonstrated on Leo III in January 1962, and on Orion in April 1962. The Leo systems were first delivered to customers in April 1962. Orion, having been delayed by hardware problems, was not delivered to a customer till March 1963. English Electric announced the KDF9 in 1960 as a small scientific computer, with timesharing as an optional extra [Ref: 2] involving additional hardware and a specific version of the ‘director’ software. That was done independently of the Orion and Leo developments. http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/CCS/res/res32.htm#e
Turtle was responsible for setting out the specification for the LEO system and managing its implementation. His oral history recorded for the London Stock Exchange includes a brief account of that experience. https://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/2784/
- Brainstorm, 3 pages. History of LEO as object lesson in operating
systems. Curse_of_the_Monitor
Vegter, I. (2007) The curse of the monitor, Read More »