Cutting

This material is held atUniversity of Manchester Library

Reference
- GB 133 NAHC/JTP/26
Dates of Creation
- 1956
Physical Description
- 2 pieces

Scope and Content

Page 6 of the Daily Herald newspaper, 23rd May 1958.This ‘full-spread’ newspaper article is entitled: "Madam robot now has a brainy son ... and his name is Perseus". Text by Peter Moorhead. There are four photos, three of which feature Joan. Also, a photocopy of this article. The Ferranti Perseus was completed in 1958 and the first customer installation took place in 1959.

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