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Wilkes/II/B/6b
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GB 275 Wilkes/II/B/6b
Title
Correspondence, notes and other papers relating to the history of science and computing
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- 1982–2006 (Creation)
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69pp. paper
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Includes correspondence with Graham Farmelo about Paul Dirac; Henry Goulden about Faraday and perpetual motion; Don Hunter re the STANTEC ZEBRA; Cuthbert Dag Spicer; W. S. Elliot about differential analysers; C. B. Jones, University of Manchester; P. C. Bottomley, Royal Signals and Radar Establishment Great Malvern, re system programming on the Plessey System 250 computer; Robin Addie about Alan Turing and other subjects, and with a copy of Addie's typescript memoirs. Notes re the Nautical Almanac Office and Sadler; 'Thru the eyes of a mathematician' (1996); notes on a conversation in 1992 with Harry Hinsley.