A Bookmark!

[gareth evans]

Bought a second hand book, long discharged from the library
at AERE Harwell, and there, as a book mark is a job card
for a program execution, with the handwritten notes saying that
the run time should be under 30 secs and that the Atlas II should
be used. User's name was Gill, year - mid 1960s.

Ring a bell with anyone?

[A.T. Murray]

Post by gareth evans
Bought a second hand book, long discharged from the library
at AERE Harwell, and there, as a book mark is a job card
for a program execution, with the handwritten notes saying that
the run time should be under 30 secs and that the Atlas II should
be used. User's name was Gill, year - mid 1960s.
Ring a bell with anyone?

Wrote a second rate book, saw somebody create a Web page about it:

https://redditfavorites.com/products/artificial-intelligence-in-ancient-latin

[Bob Eager]

Bought a second hand book, long discharged from the library at AERE
Harwell, and there, as a book mark is a job card for a program
execution, with the handwritten notes saying that the run time should
be under 30 secs and that the Atlas II should be used. User's name was
Gill, year - mid 1960s.
Ring a bell with anyone?

Someone named Gill gave me a piece of Atlas memory!

[Charles Richmond]

Post by gareth evans
Bought a second hand book, long discharged from the library
at AERE Harwell, and there, as a book mark is a job card
for a program execution, with the handwritten notes saying that
the run time should be under 30 secs and that the Atlas II should
be used. User's name was Gill, year - mid 1960s.
Ring a bell with anyone?

Stan Gill was involved in Ferranti Atlas I and II development.

http://curation.cs.manchester.ac.uk/atlas/elearn.cs.man.ac.uk/_atlas/docs/My%20Life%20on%20Atlas%201%20and%202%20final.pdf

Stan Gill worked on EDSAC with Maurice Wilkes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Gill


Stan Gill was co-author of perhaps the first program preparation book:

_Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer_,
Addison-Wesley, 1951, Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill


("Google is your friend... even may offer to sell you any random thing
that might be related to the topic! ;-( )

[Stoat]

Post by Charles Richmond

Post by gareth evans
Bought a second hand book, long discharged from the library
at AERE Harwell, and there, as a book mark is a job card
for a program execution, with the handwritten notes saying that
the run time should be under 30 secs and that the Atlas II should
be used. User's name was Gill, year - mid 1960s.
Ring a bell with anyone?

Stan Gill was involved in Ferranti Atlas I and II development.
http://curation.cs.manchester.ac.uk/atlas/elearn.cs.man.ac.uk/_atlas/docs/My%20Life%20on%20Atlas%201%20and%202%20final.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Gill
_Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer_,
Addison-Wesley, 1951, Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill

I have a copy. Another may be seen at TMNOC at Bletchley Park (or at
least could be seen when I visited in 2019.

Post by Charles Richmond
("Google is your friend...  even may offer to sell you any random thing
that might be related to the topic!   ;-(   )

--brian

[Quadibloc]

Post by Charles Richmond
_Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer_,
Addison-Wesley, 1951, Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill

I have a copy. Another may be seen at TMNOC at Bletchley Park (or at
least could be seen when I visited in 2019.

For those unable to make the pilgrimage, I believe it's on Bitsavers.

John Savard

[Dennis Boone]

Post by Quadibloc
For those unable to make the pilgrimage, I believe it's on Bitsavers.

Google Books has 1st ed here:

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Preparation_of_Programs_for_an_Elect.html?id=PzVVAAAAMAAJ

IA has 2nd ed here:

https://archive.org/details/programsforelect00wilk

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[Oleksii Reshevskiy]

Post by Dennis Boone

Post by Quadibloc
For those unable to make the pilgrimage, I believe it's on Bitsavers.

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Preparation_of_Programs_for_an_Elect.html?id=PzVVAAAAMAAJ
https://archive.org/details/programsforelect00wilk
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