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- ‘Application from Professor M. H. A. Newman: project for a calculating machine laboratory in
Manchester University’, Royal Society of London, p. 2. - T. Kilburn and L. S. Piggott, ‘Frederic Calland Williams’, Biographical Memoir of Fellows of the Royal
Society, 24 (1978), 583–604. p. 591. ‘Williams cathode ray tube storage: evidence relating to the ori-
gin of the invention and the dissemination of information on the operation of the storage system’,
draft report of the National Research Development Corporation, no date, p. 7 (I am grateful to Dai
Edwards for sending me a copy of this document). Tom Kilburn in interview with Copeland (Note 3). - Williams in interview with Evans (Note 12).
- Williams (Note 15), p. 328.
- These were not limited to the Colossi and the Robinsons (Chapter 14): other Newmanry machines are
described in ‘General report on Tunny’ (see Note 26) and in Copeland et al. (2006). - Michie in an unpublished memoir sent to Copeland in March 1997.
- ‘Report by Professor M. H. A. Newman on progress of computing machine project’, Appendix A of
Council Minutes, Royal Society of London (13 January 1949), in the archives of the Royal Society of
London. - The lecture notes are published as ‘The Turing–Wilkinson lecture series (1946–7)’, in Copeland et al.
(2005); see also B. J. Copeland, ‘The Turing–Wilkinson lecture series on the Automatic Computing
Engine’, in Furukawa et al. (Note 1), 381–444. This series of nine lectures (about half of which were
given by Turing’s assistant, Jim Wilkinson, most likely from notes prepared by Turing) covered
Versions V, VI, and VII of Turing’s design for the ACE. - Williams in interview with Evans (Note 12).
- G. Bowker and R. Giordano, ‘Interview with Tom Kilburn’, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing,
15 (1993), 17–32, p. 19. - See my Introduction to ‘The Turing–Wilkinson lecture series (1946–7)’ (Note 42), pp. 459–464.
Womersley’s handwritten notes concerning the arrangements for the lectures are in the Woodger
Archive, catalogue reference M15, and The Turing Archive for the History of Computing (http://www.
AlanTuring.net/womersley_notes_22nov46). - Letter from Brian Napper to Copeland (16 June 2002).
- Bowker and Giordano (Note 44), p. 19. I am grateful to Brian Napper for drawing this passage to my
attention in correspondence during 2002. - Kilburn, ‘A storage system for use with binary digital computing machines’ (Note 17).
- Kilburn, ‘The University of Manchester universal high-speed digital computing machine’ (Note 17),
p. 687. - Williams in interview with Evans (Note 12).
- Williams in interview with Evans (Note 12).
- Good used these terms in a letter to Newman about computer architecture (8 August 1948). The
letter is in I. J. Good, ‘Early notes on electronic computers’, unpublished, compiled in 1972 and 1976,
pp. 63–4; a copy of this document is in the Manchester Archive, MUC/Series 2/a4. - For a complete discussion of ACE instruction formats see Copeland et al. (2005), Chapters 4, 9,
11, and 22. - This overview of Kilburn’s machine is based on Section 1.4 of Kilburn, ‘A storage system for use with
binary digital computing machines’ (Note 17). See also B. Napper, ‘Covering notes for Tom Kilburn’s
1947 report to TRE’ (http://www.computer50.org/kgill/mark1/report1947cover.html). I am indebted
to Napper for helpful correspondence. - Kilburn, ‘A storage system for use with binary digital computing machines’ (Note 17). Kilburn’s
block diagram may be viewed at (http://www.computer50.org/kgill/mark1/TR47diagrams/f1.2.png).
Incidentally, the computer shown in Kilburn’s block diagram was no baby: Kilburn ambitiously speci-
fied a memory capacity of 8192 words, whereas the actual Baby had a mere 32 words of memory. - W. Newman, ‘Max Newman—mathematician, codebreaker, and computer pioneer’, in Copeland et al.
(2006), p. 185. - H. D. Huskey, ‘The state of the art in electronic digital computing in Britain and the United States’, in
Copeland et al. (2005), p. 536.
