Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1zfek8h4k1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102646077">503 Ultra High Speed Digital Computer For Science and Industry</a> manual at the <a href="http://www.computerhistory.org/">Computer History Museum</a>.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/20502747038http://notes.husk.org/post/20502747038Thu, 05 Apr 2012 02:54:09 +0100computercomputingelliottelliott 503historyimagemanualukdesign“Seventeen 803 machines were exported to America between 1960 and 1963, where they were applied to on-line industrial process control - sometimes via the Panellit company under the badge of Panellit 609 computers. In the UK, a notable first for an Elliott 803 in 1960 was the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)’s Calder Hall atomic station project at Windscale (Sellafield). The 803 provided a 24/7 logging and alarm-scanning system for the prototype Magnox gas-cooled reactor, for what became the world’s first industrial scale nuclear power station.”<br/><br/> - <em>Simon Lavington on <a href="http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/">Elliott Computers</a>, from <a href="http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/CCS/res/res42.htm#i">Computer Resurrection Issue 42</a>.</em>http://notes.husk.org/post/20501665874http://notes.husk.org/post/20501665874Thu, 05 Apr 2012 02:38:07 +0100quotecomputerscomputingukelliottelliott 803nuclear powerexport<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1zen7vN1v1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Norwich City Council’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=226132517481461&set=a.226132334148146.52063.212070242221022&type=1&theater">first computer, an Elliott 405</a>, being delivered. 1957. (<a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/194428908882983638/">via</a>, <a href="http://mlkshk.com/p/E4EA">via</a>)</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/20498833844http://notes.husk.org/post/20498833844Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:57:07 +0100imagecomputerelectronic computerelliott405norwichbeccles1950s1957photographvintage