Personal and Historical Papers

Scope and Content

Comprises:

  • A1, Draft article by Martin Campbell-Kelly, Early Programming Activity at the University of Cambridge, typescript, pp. 55 + figures, (1978). Later published in Annals of History of Computing (1980);
  • A2, Listing of manuscripts from the Computer Laboratory, ca. 1945-60, which were subsequently deposited at the Cambridge University Library;
  • A3, M.V. Wilkes, My Recollections of Howard Aiken, typescript, pp. 3, (December 1986);
  • A4, M.V. Wilkes, The Development of Modern Computers, lecture, pp. 10, (23 February 1988);
  • A5, D.J. Wheeler, Programmed Computing at the Universities of Cambridge and Illinois in the Early Fifties, typescript, pp. 11, (1989), in S.G. Nash (ed.),A History of Scientific and Numeric Computation (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1990);
  • A6, D. Wheeler, Events in the History of the Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University 1937-1970, typescript, pp. 2, (1989);
  • A7, Press cuttings, ephemera, regarding the Computer Laboratory.