A History of Computing at Daresbury - Book Collection

Rob Allan and Tim Franks.

We list here the collection of retained books related to computing systems which have been used over the years plus historical computer science references.

This page is under construction.

Badenia

  1. Badenia User Guide (copy in German)

Cray

  1. Cray-1 Manual
  2. Cray-1 Quick Reference card
  3. R.M.Russell "The Cray-1 Computer System" ACM Jan'1978()
  4. "Cray Channels vol.1 no.3" ()
  5. D.Taylor, J.Hopkinson and C.Henfrey "The Cray-1S and the Cray Service provided by SERC at Daresbury Laboratory" (CPC 1982)

Convex

  1. VECLIB User's Guide 3rd edn. (Oct'1988)
  2. Unix for Beginners, Module 3 (Mar'1987)

Daresbury User Manuals

  1. Local User Guide for the HPC Cluster at Daresbury Laboratory

Digital

  1. Digital "PDP-8 Overview" (Digital 1964)
  2. Digital "PDP-8 Introduction to Programming" (DEC 1970)
  3. Digital "PDP-11 Processor Handbook" (DEC 1971)
  4. Digital "PDP-11 Processor Handbook" (DEC 1978)
  5. Digital "PDP-11 Peripherals and Interfacing Handbook" (DEC 1971)
  6. Digital "PDP-11 Programming Card" (DEC 1975)
  7. T.S.Frank "Introduction to PDP-11 Assembly Language" (Prentice-Hall 1983)
  8. PDP-11 Programming Manual (brown cover)
  9. PDP-11 Programming Manual (blue cover)
  10. PDP-11 Quick Reference Card
  11. LSI-11 Quick Reference Card
  12. "VT100 Programming Reference Card" (Digital ?)
  13. M.Cheek et al. "Tru64 Linux Admin Guide" (Digital 2000)
  14. "Alpha Architecture Handbook" (Digital 1992)

Elliott/ NCR

  1. "Elliott 4100 Facts" (NCR 1965)
  2. "Elliott 4100 Programming Guide" (NCR, Unwin, ?)
  3. "Elliott 4100 Processor Specification" (NCR, ?)

GEC

  1. GEC "GEC 4000 Series Terminal Users' Facts Book" (GEC 1981)
  2. "" ()

General

  1. "Advancing Science in Europe" (DEISA 2006)
  2. "CAMTEC JNT-Pad Guide" (Camtec 1984)
  3. "Disc Manual for BBC Micro" (Opus Peripherals)
  4. "AMI Bios 440LX Chipset Reference" (SuperMicro 1998)
  5. "ALGOL 68-R Users' Guide" (HMSO, MoD 1975)
  6. "Convex Unix Primer" (Convex 1987)
  7. "MPI Standard v2.1" (U.Tennessee 2008)
  8. R.J.Allan "Virtual Research Environments" (Chandos)
  9. R.J.Allan et al. "HPC 1998" (Kluwer/ Plenum 1999) several copies
  10. G.S.Almasi and A.Gottlieb "Highly Parallel Computing" (Benjamin-Cummings 1989)
  11. T.C.Bantee "Digital Computer Fundamentals" (McGraw-Hill 1981)
  12. A.Berg and M.Korkuska "Sakai Courseware Management" (PackT 2009)
  13. T.Berners-Lee "Weaving the Web" (Orion 1995)
  14. C.M.Bishop "Pattern Recognition and ML" (Springer 2006)
  15. W.J.Bines ed. "Online Programming Languages and Assemblers" (McGraw-Hill 1989)
  16. Ulyss Black "TCP/IP and Related Protocols" (McGraw-Hill 1998)
  17. T.J.M.Boyd and J.J.Saunders "The Physcs of Plasmas" (CUP 2003)
  18. J.Brittain and I.F.Darwin "Tomcat-4" (O'Reilly 2003)
  19. W.A.Burkhard "C for Programmers" (Wadsworth 1988)
  20. A.Chandor "Computers 0001" (Penguin 1977)
  21. G.Ciaranella and A.G.Gaarger "Iterative Methods and Pre-conditioners for Systems of Linear Equations" (SIAM 2022)
  22. M.O.Ching and B.Porter "Apach Maven-2" (PackT 2009)
  23. "Chrismas Brochure" (Aldi 2025)
  24. Collins "A2 Physics Unit 5" (Harper-Collins 2010)
  25. P.J.Davis and P.Rabinowitz "Numerical Integration" (Blaischoff 1967)
  26. T.M.R.Ellis "A Structured Approach to FORTRAN 77 Programming" (International Computer Science Series, 1987)
  27. T.Engel and J.Gasteiger eds. "Cheminformatics" (Wiley 2018)
  28. R.G.Evans ad S.Wilson "Supercomputational Science" (Plenum 1990)
  29. G.Ferry "A Computer called LEO" (Fourth Estate 2003)
  30. R.Fiddy "A Fanatic's Guide to Computers" (Exley 1991) cartoon book
  31. K.J.Foley et al. "A High Capacity Dgital Data Handling Systtem" (Brookhaven 1964)
  32. I.R.Forshaw and A.G.Smith "Dynamics and Relativity" (Wiley 2009)
  33. I.Foster and K.Kesselman "The Grid" (Morgan-Kaufmann 1999)
  34. I.S.Grant and W.R.Phillips "Electron-Magnetism" (Wiley 1990)
  35. I.Goodfellow "Deep Learning" (MIT 2016)
  36. S.Guelich et al. "CGI Programming with Perl" (O'Reilly 2000) 2nd edn
  37. J.L.Gustafson et al. "Parallel Methods for 1024 Hypercube" (SIAM 1988)
  38. D.R.Hartree "Calculating Instruments and Machines" (CUP 1950)
  39. T.Hey and G.Papay "The Computing Universe" (CUP 2014)
  40. R.W.Hockney and J.W.Eastwood "Computer Simulation using Particles" (IOP 1988)
  41. W.Isaacson "Steve Jobs" (Little Brown 2011)
  42. R.W.James "X-Ray Chrystallography" (Methuen 1930)
  43. B.Kernigan and D.Ritchie "The C Programming Language" (Prentice-Hall 1988) 2nd edn ANSI C
  44. G.C.King "Vibrations and Waves" (Wiley 2009)
  45. D.Knuth "Fundamental Algorithms" (Addison-Wesley 1972)
  46. C.H.Koelbel, D.M.Loveman, R.S.Schreiber, G.L.Steele and M.E.Zosel "The High Performance Fortran Handbook" (MIT Press, 1994, 1997)
  47. V.Kotu and B.Deshpande "Data Science" (Morgan-Kaufman 2019)
  48. M.E.Kumar "Learning Deep Learning" (Nvidia 2022) 2 copies
  49. B.Laurie and P.Laurie "Apache" (O.Reilly 1997)
  50. N.C.Lauro et al. "Data Science and Social Research" (Springer 2018)
  51. D.C.Lay et al. "Linear Algebra and its Applications" (Wesley, CUP 2019)
  52. M.Li and M.Baker "The Grid, Core Technologies" (Wiley 2005)
  53. J.D.Livingston "Driving Force, the natural Magic of Magnets" (Harvard 1996)
  54. J.J.Manger "UNIX the Complete Book" (Sigma Press, 1991)
  55. H.S.W.Massey et al. "A small scale Differential Analyser" (Proc. Roy. Irish Academy 1938)
  56. D.M.Mauro "A Crash Course in Fortran 77" (E.Arundel 1988)
  57. MicroSoft "Fortran Compiler Quick Reference" (MS 1985)
  58. A.Negro "Graph Powered Machine Learning" (Manning 2021)
  59. B.Nichols et al. "Pthreads Programming" (O'Reilly 1996)
  60. G.S.Noland "Fortan 77 Reference Manual" (NW Universities Computer Services, Nov'1985)
  61. A.Osborne and C.S.Donahue "PET/ CBM Guide" (Osborne, McGraw-Hill 1980)
  62. C.Osterweil "Neuriscience for Project Success" (APM 2022)
  63. D.Paga "Palm Pilot" (O'Reilly 1999)
  64. E.S.Page and L.B.Wilson "Information Representation and Manipulation using Pascal" (CUP 1986)
  65. P.A.Patterson and J.L.Hennessey "Computer Organisation and Design" (Morgan-Kauffman 1998)
  66. R.H.Perrott "Software for Parallel Computers" (Chapman-Hall 1992)
  67. J.Petersen "Introduction to Programming Distributed Memory Multiprocessors" (CPC 1992\)
  68. J.Pryde "Chambers Mathematical Tables, college edn." (Chambers 1961)
  69. J.Pryde "Chambers Mathematical Tables, full edn." (Chambers 1961)
  70. D.Pountain "Object Oriented Forth" (Academic Press, 1987)
  71. M.J.Quinn "Parallel Computing" (McGraw-Hill 1994)
  72. R.Rada "Hypertext" (McGraw-Hill 1991)
  73. RedHat "Linux 5.x Installation Guide" (RH Software 1998)
  74. RedHat "Linux 6.0 Getting Started" (RH Software 1999)
  75. C.W.Reynolds "Program Design and Data Structures in Pascal" (Wadsworth 1986)
  76. N.Rhodes and J.McKeehan "Palm Programming" (O'Reilly 1999)
  77. R.D.Richtmeyer and K.W.Martin "Differential Equations for Initial Value Problems" (Wiley 1967)
  78. E.Siever eet al. "Linux in a Nutshell" (O'Reilly 2000)
  79. D.I.Schneider "Handbook of Basic" (Brady 1988)
  80. R.L.Schwarz and T.Phoenix "Learning Perl" (O'Reilly 2001)
  81. C.Sheffy "Multi-core Processing for Dummies" (AMD)
  82. G.Shiers "Design and Construction of Electronic Equipment" (Prentice-Hall, 1966)
  83. T.Standage "The Victorian Internet" (Phoenix 1998)
  84. C.Stanick et al. "Graph Machine Learning" (PackT 2021) 2 copies
  85. D.Strang "Differential Equations and Linear Algebra" (Wesley, CUP 2014)
  86. D.N.Streeter "The Scientific Process and the Computer" (Wiley Interscience, 1974)
  87. R.S.Sutton and A.G.Barnato "Reinforcement Learning" (MIT 2020)
  88. J.L.Synge and B.A.Griffith "Principles of Mechanics" (McGraw-Hill 1959)
  89. G.Taylor "Linux Complete" (Sybex, 1999)
  90. D.D.Toppen "Forth, an Applications Approach" (Donelly, McGraw-Hill, 1985)
  91. Tym "T3 tutorial" (TCI Software 1987)
  92. L.Wasserman "All of Statistics" (Springer 2010)
  93. G.Weightman "Signor Marconi's Magic Box" (Harper-Collins 2003)
  94. I.R.Wilson and A.M.Addyman "An Introduction to Pascal with BS6192" (MacMillan 1982)
  95. R.L.Ziegler "Linux Firewalls" (New Riders) 2nd edn
  96. "" ()

HP

  1. HP "HP97 Standard PAC" (HP 1976)

IBM

  1. IBM "The Quantum Decade" (IBM 2022) 3rd edn
  2. IBM "VM Commands Reference Summary" (IBM 1985)
  3. IBM "SP editor Command Language" (IBM 1984)
  4. IBM "BlueGene/L Administration" (IBM RedBooks 2006)
  5. IBM "OS/360 JCL Reference Card" (IBM 1972) photo-copy
  6. "Flowcharting Template 360" (IBM)
  7. "DOS 3.20 Users' Guide" (IBM, MS 1986)
  8. M.Bennett "Inside the IBM RS/6000" (McGraw-Hill 1993)
  9. D.L.Cohn "An AIX Companion" (Prentice-Hall 1994)
  10. P.Colledge "Advanced Programming Guide to AIX 3x" (IBM, McGraw-Hill 1994)
  11. "IBM DB2 Quick Beginnings" (IBM 2000)
  12. "P-Series AIX Certification Study" (IBM Redbooks 2001)
  13. F.Waters "AIX Performance Tuning" (IBM, Prentice-Hall 1995)
  14. "AIX v4 Operation and Tuning" (IBM 1996)
  15. "" ()

Intel

  1. iPSC/2 VAST2 User's Guide (Feb'1989)
  2. iPSC/2 User's Guide (Mar'1989)
  3. iPSC/2 VX User's Guide (June 1989)
  4. iPSC/2 Programmer's Reference Manual (Oct'1989)
  5. iPSC/2 and iPSC/860 Math Libraries Reference (Apr'1990)
  6. iPSC/2 and iPSC/860 User's Guide (Oct'1990)
  7. iPSC/860 Fortran Compiler User's Guide (Apr'1991)
  8. iPSC/2 and iPSC/860 User's Guide (Apr'1991)
  9. iPSC/2 and iPSC/860 Programmer's Reference Manual (Apr'1991)
  10. Introduction to the Intel iPSC/860 and iPSC/2 Supercomputers (Dec'1991)
  11. iPSC/860 Fortran Compiler User's Guide (Jan'1993)
  12. Introduction to the Intel iPSC/860 Supercomputer (Jan'1994)

Magazines and Newsletters

  1. "Tony Sale Obituary" (Telegraph 1/9/2011)
  2. BCS "Bulletin 55" (BCS Summer 1022)
  3. "Supercomputer 36" (Mar'1990)
  4. C.Rope "Pioneer Profile: Douglas Hartree" (BCS winter 2009)
  5. "" ()

Odhner

  1. Odhner User Guide

Reports

  1. MacFarlane, Forty et al. "Report of the CCC Review" (SERC 1984)
  2. A.J.Forty et al. "Future Facilities for Advanced Research Computing" (ABRC, Computer Board and University Grants Committee, June 1985)
  3. IEEE "IEEE 1003.1 Posix Standard draft 3" (IEEE, Unisoft ?)
  4. DL Computer Room "Floor Plan for IBM 370 Replacement" (SCH.298 30/4/1981) A0 drawing

Sales Brochures etc.

  1. "Tera MTA" (1996)
  2. "Tera MTA" (1999) PAL video
  3. "nCube2 Supercomputer Overview" (1990) 2 copies
  4. "Fujitsu AP1000" (1994)
  5. "HP Apollo Series 700 Model 735" (HP 1992)
  6. "Convex C3800" (?)
  7. R.Hempel "ANL/ GMD PARMACS" (GMD 1991)
  8. "Suprenum" (1988)
  9. "" ()

Silicon Graphics

  1. SGI 1

Sun

  1. A.Cockcroft and R.Poffit "Sun Performance Tuning" (Sun, Prrentice-Hall 1998)

Transputers etc.

  1. Transputer Initiatve "Mailshot" (SERC/ DTI Aug'1991)
  2. "Occam Numerical Library" (CMSR, Liverpool 1993)
  3. "NAG Liverpool Numerical Library" (U.Liverpool 1993)
  4. A.J.G.Hey ad M.R.Sleep "Transputer Bibliography" (SERC/ DTI 1988)
  5. D.Pountain "A Tutorial Introduction to Occam Programming" (INMOS 1986)
  6. D.J.Pritchard and C.J. Scott eds. "Applications of Transputers 2" (IOS Press 1990)
  7. "The Transpoter Handbook" (INMOS 1989)
  8. "Occam Programming Manual" (INMOS 1983)