The man - not the CMU file system Leeds Before Andrew The man - not the CMU file system
1957 A truly vintage year
Six Universities purchase computers
Born in1957 European Union Scalextrics British Computer Society
Lyons Corner House 1957 ?? Developed LEO computers first business use of computers - worldwide The only Lyons Corner House outside the London area was in Leeds
Seymour Cray and CDC Control Data Corporation was founded by William C. Morris and a group of engineers (amongst whom Seymour Cray) from Sperry Rand ECMWF CRAY-1
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson. PDP-1 computer
FORTRAN-1 is formally published John Backus led the IBM team
From the History of Computing Project website http://www.thocp.net/ Verbatim: “A first attempt to immitatie human intelligence in a simulacron is attempted by Herbert.” No further explanation is offered
Milestones in Leeds
1957 Electronic Computing Laboratory
1957 Pegasus installed in Eldon Chapel Known as Lucifer
Operators’ Manual for Pegasus
Useful operating instructions
KDF9 1962? KDF9 installed in Eldon Chapel 1965 Flowers Report 1966 KDF9 upgraded and moved to Computer Block
1966 First Undergraduates (Combined Studies)
1968 Eldon2 service starts 192 Kbytes core store 6S cycle time 24 Mbytes hard disk - seek time 300 mS PDP-8 communications processor 32 teletype terminals response OK up to about 26 logged on users
ICL 1906A 1972 ICL1906A installed 1972 KDF9 switches to student role George 3 (later George 4)
THIS IS GEORGE 3 MARK 8.67 ON 31DEC99 10.19.03_ TIMED OUT 10.19.33 THE SYSTEM HAS TEMPORARILY CLOSED DOWN
Milestones UCS / ISS 1979/12/29 Amdahl V7 with VM/CMS 1975 Wells report - JANET - e-mail 1984 JANET starts on 1st April 1984 upgrade to Amdahl 580 1990 UNIX - Sun, SG, HP 1990 PCs - DOS 1990s UCS/Admin DP merged to form ISS 1992 WWW
Students 1968 freshers - 40% female
More students 1968? - 31.5% female over the 3 pictures
Students socialising
Students socialising
Recollections of Andrew Not a shrinking violet Not lacking in confidence Not one to shirk a challenge Not afraid of the unconventional
Algol68 on 1906A World’s first Algol68 compiler 1970s saw rapid development in programming languages Perhaps the first Leeds undergraduate to explore the language
Final Year project on Analogue Computer Perhaps the last Leeds undergraduate to work on the machine
Andrew J Herbert