Classic Computer Question

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Wed Oct 23 07:59:01 2002

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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