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Box 606733912

 Container

Contains 12 Results:

Royal Radar Establishment All-transistor Computer (RREAC), Feb-Jun 1960

 File
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 266/C.116
Description and order code of the machine, Strachey's comparative notes on its performance, 2 copies of his 'Report on the computer being built at RRE' (2 pages.), 7 June 1960.
Extents: 1 file
Dates: Feb-Jun 1960

Work on 'Ship Fairings', Dec 1960-Oct 1961

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 266/C.117
Work on 'Ship Fairings', undertaken at the request of the National Research Development Corporation. Notes, graphs, calculations, a computer printout on Pegasus autocode regarding the problem of fitting the curved end portions of a ship, and Strachey's 'Comments on a Note on Ship Fairing' (2 pages.). n.d. but probably October 1961.
Extents: 1 file
Dates: Dec 1960-Oct 1961

Work on Traffic Control, 1960-1961

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 266/C.118
This work was undertaken at the request of the National Research Development Corporation and the Road Research Laboratory. Includes: Memos, etc. from the National Research Development Corporation regarding collaborative work on the problem with the Road Research Laboratory and electronic equipment manufacturers, February 1960. Manuscript and typescript versions of a paper by...
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1960-1961

Work on Traffic Control, 1961

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 266/C.119
Includes: Diagrams and calculations by Strachey, especially on traffic control at junctions. Copy of a paper 'Traffic simulation programme' for Pegasus, by J.G.F. Francis, June 1961, probably developed from above.
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1961

Miscellaneous papers on ALGOL, 1960-1961

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 266/C.120
Perhaps assembled for review/comment on a paper by H. Rutishauser 'Interference with an ALGOL-procedure' (a copy of which is enclosed) for Review in Automatic Programming. Folder also includes a copy of 'Towards an ALGOL translator' by Bryan Higman, 1961, with comments by P. Landin and M. Woodger, and an offprint of 'Report on the algorithmic language ALGOL60' by J.W. Backus et al.
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1960-1961

'L.B. I. Programmes' (LISP Bootstrap), Jun-Sep 1960

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 266/C.121
Notes, calculations and printouts regarding 'Set up LISP program' on EMIDEC 2400.
Extents: 1 file
Dates: Jun-Sep 1960

'LISP Bootstrap', n.d.

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 266/C.122

'EMIDEC 2400, Jul-Oct 1960

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 266/C.123
LISP Bootstrap Translator' (L.B.T.): notes, calculations and printouts.
Extents: 1 file
Dates: Jul-Oct 1960

'LISP EMI 2400., July-Oct 1960

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 266/C.124
'LISP EMI 2400: machine results etc.' Mainly printouts, with Strachey's comments on results.
Extents: 1 file
Dates: July-Oct 1960

'BL → AL, AL → ML: assembly and Translation', Oct-Dec 1960

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 266/C.125
Four bundles of notes, October 1960, on 'Assembly', 'Translation from L.B.I to Assembly coder', 'Temporary Translation of Assembly', 'LB I', and a 3-page note on 'Structure of List Bootstrap Process' with definition of terms, etc.
Extents: 1 file
Dates: Oct-Dec 1960

List processing, 1960-1961

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 266/C.127
Miscellaneous bundles of notes, calculations and narrative. Various dates, beginning December 1960, but mainly July and November 1961. The notes are on list processing, and may be related to the Film Store Test Equipment of the EMIDEC 2400; miscellaneous information sheets and function tables, annotated by Strachey, about the Film Store Test Equipment are included with the notes, and one bundle is headed 'Film Test Store. LISP'.
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1960-1961