50th Anniversary of the first stored-program computer, the Baby or Small-scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) documents

This material is held atUniversity of Manchester Library

Reference
- GB 133 NAHC/JTP/18
Dates of Creation
- 1998
Physical Description
- 1 folder

Scope and Content

Preliminary publicity, contact-lists, invitations, programme of events, relevant journal and newspaper articles, etc., all connected to the artefacts (eg reconstructed working Baby machine), lectures, exhibitions and events held in June 1998 in Manchester. The events were also collectively known as Digital 98. Included in this group of items are print-outs of certain key pages from the University of Manchester’s “Baby@50” website, as they appeared at the time of the event.

Archive Record|Table of contents

Joan and John Travis PapersNAHC/JTP

Biographical Note on Joan TravisNAHC/JTP/1

Joan Travis CVsNAHC/JTP/2

The Manchester Universal Electronic Computer. Ferranti programmers’ Reunion at Cordon Mill, Somerset. 21st April 1993. BookletNAHC/JTP/3

Stroke ENAHC/JTP/4

Stroke ENAHC/JTP/5

Stroke ENAHC/JTP/6

Correspondence and Papers re 1993 reunion and newslettersNAHC/JTP/7

Letter and contact-list from John Woodgate, relevant to a Ferranti London Computer Laboratory ReunionNAHC/JTP/8

Correspondence relating to Ferranti ComputingNAHC/JTP/9

C H Devonald’s early suggestion for an instruction set for the Ferranti FPC/1 computer, later named Pegasus.NAHC/JTP/10

John Travis' Engineering NotebookNAHC/JTP/11

Miscellaneous notes and single-sheet guides.NAHC/JTP/12

Lists of Ferranti Lily Hill employeesNAHC/JTP/13

Correspondence between Joan Travis and John GoslingNAHC/JTP/14

E-mail exchanges between Simon Lavington and Joan TravisNAHC/JTP/15

Obituaries and funeral noticesNAHC/JTP/16

Ferranti/ICT/ICL official correspondence and memos regarding employment contracts, take-overs and share information and computer orders (sales).NAHC/JTP/17

50th Anniversary of the first stored-program computer, the Baby or Small-scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) documentsNAHC/JTP/18

Miscellaneous early papers of the Computer Conservation Society,NAHC/JTP/19

Miscellaneous papers on computer history.NAHC/JTP/20

A History of Manchester Computers. Simon LavingtonNAHC/JTP/21

PhotographsNAHC/JTP/22

Colour photo of 33 participants at the Ferranti Tin Hut reunion held on 21st April 1993NAHC/JTP/23

PhotographsNAHC/JTP/24

Group photo of Ferranti’s London Computer Lab staff, summer 1956, with an accompanying partial name list.NAHC/JTP/25

CuttingNAHC/JTP/26

PhotographsNAHC/JTP/27

PhotographNAHC/JTP/28