John Travis' Engineering Notebook

This material is held atUniversity of Manchester Library

Reference
- GB 133 NAHC/JTP/11
Dates of Creation
- c. 1958-1960
Physical Description
- 1 hardback volume

Scope and Content

Stiff-backed ‘Beacon’ triplicate book (9.5 inches x 8 inches). Covers commissioning and maintenance engineering details from about 1958 – 1962. Relevant to the Pegasus computer delivered to ICI Blackley, to Pluto I (a Pegasus 2 machine) and to Perseus. Gives detailed lists of cabling and connector information, especially regarding magnetic tape decks; also, lists of mag tapes (or tape routines).

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