Early Computing in Britain Ferranti Ltd. and Government Funding, 1948 — 1958 /

This unique book presents the story of the pioneering manufacturing company Ferranti Ltd. – producer of the first commercially-available computers – and of the nine end-user organisations who purchased these machines with government help in the period 1951 to 1957. The text presents personal reminis...

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Main Author: Lavington, Simon. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:History of Computing,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15103-4