2012-04-05
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photo 02:19:58
From the Computer Conservation Society’s page about a talk by Simon Lavington on The Story of Elliott-Automation:
“An Elliott 405 at Norwich City Council in February 1957. Norwich is believed to have been the first UK local authority to install a digital computer”.
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photo 01:57:07
Norwich City Council’s first computer, an Elliott 405, being delivered. 1957. (via, via)
2012-02-20
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quote 19:24:05
“ The University of East Anglia is the Norwich Municipal Golf Course on the fringe of Suburbia. ”
Cedric Price, quoted in Price Was Right at cosmopolitan scum, an article on a forthcoming exhibition of his plans in London.
