HOC.01.0001 Photos and documents from Dec'1964 images/1800.jpg The IBM 1800 data acquisition and control computer was introduced in Dec'1964 and intended for industrial process control applications. It could be linked to the IBM System 360 (which had been announced six months earlier) to increase its own computing power or to form a management information system in which production line data was used to update inventory records, perform accounting or handle other general data processing jobs. http://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/ibm-370.html HOC.01.0002 Photos and documents from June 1970 images/370_console.jpg The S/370 data processor was a main frame computer introduced in June 1970 as a successor to the S/360. The S/370 had 2x CPUs and memory based on integrated circuits rather than magnetic cores. http://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/ibm-370.html HOC.01.0003 Photos and documents c.1981 images/gec-4000.jpg GEC 16 and 32-bit data and experimental control processors, plus 2x memory boards. The 4000 was manufactured in the UK at Borehamwood and Dunstable. Users of GEC 4000 series systems included many British university physics and engineering departments, the central computing service of University College London (Euclid) and Keele University, the JANET academic and research network X.25 switching backbone, Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, Daresbury Laboratory, Harwell Laboratory, NERC, Met Office, CERN, ICI, British Telecom, and many others. At the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory a GEC 4000 system was used to control the synchrotron and injectors used for the ISIS neutron spallation source until 1998. See http://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/gec-4000.html See also http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acd/icf/mums/gec/p005.htm HOC.01.0004 Retained 1975 images/pdp-11.jpg PDP-11/05 computer c.1974-80 - this was one of the first computers to run Unix. It was built by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). The C language was designed for this model of computer. The one on show was used at Daresbury Laboratory to control the network and terminal concentrators and a number of other tasks. It has a 16-bit instruction set and data registers and approximately 16 kB of Sension semi-conductor memory. The ``quick summary'' card and Digital books show how this computer would be programmed. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/pdp-1105.html Located in display rack HOC.01.0005 Retained (2x items) c.1980 images/lsi-11.jpg DEC LSI-11/23 Q-bus crated computer and peripheral cards for data collection and analysis c.1980. A number of these were used for the SERC (Science and Engineering Research Council) experimental facilities, such as the Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS) at Daresbury integrated with CAMAC systems. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/pdp-1105.html One located in display rack HOC.01.0006 Retained (2x items) c.1980 images/lsi11_in_rack.jpg rack mounted disc drawer with 8'' floppy drives (x2), one with the RTS-11 O/S disc for the LSI-11 machine. One located in display rack HOC.01.0007 Retained (several items) PDP-11 Programming manual (brown cover). PDP-11 quick reference card. LSI-11/2 quick reference card. PDP-11 Programming manual (blue cover) + 2x others. 8'' floppy discs with O/S. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/artefacts/dl.books.html HOC.01.0008 Photos and documents 1978-83 images/cray-1s.jpg Cray-1S/1000 SN1 was on loan from Cray Inc. in 1978, this was the first Cray vector super computer outside the USA. In fact it was the Cray 1 serial number 1 which had been installed 3 years earlier at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 1981 it was replaced by a production machine, serial number 28 and in 1982 had the main memory capacity increased from 4 MBytes to 8 MBytes. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/cray-1s.html HOC.01.0009 Retained (several items) c.1979 Cray-1 manuals and quick reference card https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/artefacts/dl.books.html HOC.01.0010 Retained images/nim_crate2.jpg Nuclear Instrument Module crate and cards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Instrumentation_Module Located in display rack HOC.01.0011 Retained c.1972 images/camac1.jpg Computer, Automation, Monitoring and Control - example CAMAC crate and modules for data acquisition and instrument control with link to PC. They were also used with earlier computers such as the LSI-11 from 1972 onwards but continued in use until around 2005. Earlier modules used the NIM standard. This one has a coincidence detector module with EPLD chips used to synchronise the SRS booster and main storage rings. They were superceded by technology such as VMEbus (1987). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Automated_Measurement_and_Control Located in display rack HOC.01.0012 Retained images/camac2.jpg As above HOC.01.0013 Retained 1990 In-crate VMEbus single board computer with Motorola 68040 processor used for data acquisition on the SRS. This was the same processor as used in the Macintosh Quadra running up to 40 MHz. It included an on-chip floating point unit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Single_Board_Computers HOC.01.0014 Retained images/icp600.jpg Model WS-600 from ICP America Inc. Machines were sold as industrial workstations to be mounted in a rack, this one is believed to be an RF (radio frequency power supply) control computer using LabView software. https://www.icpamerica.com/products/lcd/industrial-panel-pc-computers-with-workstations Located in display rack HOC.01.0015 Photos and documents Oct'1984 images/fps164.jpg Floating Point Systems was a computer company from Beaverton, Oregon founded in 1970. The FPS-164 was introduced in 1981. The FPS was used as an attached processor for scientific applications. At Daresbury, the front-end computer was the NAS/7000. The machine provided 64-bit vector processing capability similar to the Cray-1 and could be extended with additional MAX boards. This one initially had 3x 135 MB disks, one 600 MB disk and 512 Kwords of main memory. The processor ran at 5.5 M instructions per second which could realise 11 Mflop/s plus up to 66 Mflop/s on three MAX boards. Unfortunately we only have photographs and programming manuals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_Point_Systems HOC.01.0016 Photos and documents c.1985 This was the follow-on to the FPS-164. Unfortunately we only have photographs and programming manuals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_Point_Systems HOC.01.0017 Photos and documents 1981-88 photographs of NAS/7000. This is a copy of an IBM 370 running IBM's operating system MVS. The system was installed in 1981 and had 16 MBytes of main memory. The IBM mainframe service at Daresbury finally terminated on 16/12/1988. National Advanced Systems were bought from National Semiconductor by Hitachi in 1989. HOC.01.0018 Retained 1985 The birth of parallel computing. The transputer was one of the first dedicated CPUs for parallel processing - a British invention by David May, Robert Milne and Iann Barron. It was manufactured by INMOS Ltd. of Bristol from 1979. INMOS was actually a government initiative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer HOC.01.0019 Retained 1985 INMOS Limited B004 Transputer Evaluation Board. Has a specialised T414 transputer. This board mostly contains memory chips and is designed for control purposes of either instruments or other parallel compute boards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmos HOC.01.0020 Retained 1985 images/meiko.jpg Meiko Ltd. (Bristol) Mk009 dedicated 4 processor parallel computer board using T800 transputers from the M10. This was used by the Transputer Initiative to investigate general purpose parallel computing to support scientific research. Transputers were also used in dedicated systems to control experiments and collect data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiko_Scientific See https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/parallel.html HOC.01.0021 Retained c.1987 Quintek Ltd. (Bristol) Fast9 PC accelerator board with 10 T800 transputers (one master and 9 slaves). This cost around 10 thousand pounds when it was made. The idea was to build a parallel computer into an IBM PC for fast scientific computing. HOC.01.0022 Photographs and documents 1987-94 images/ipsc2_small.jpg Another era with Intel (USA) iPSC and i860 parallel computers. The British market with its transputers could not sustain the performance of the American and Japanese rivals using less specialised RISC processors. Commodity processers were engineered for the mass market so could be designed and produced quickly. 32 sx/vx Intel nodes were provided by the SERC Science Board in 1988 for this second-generation Intel hypercube. Each node had a 80386 plus Weitek 1167 floating point processor set and AMD vx vector co-processors and a total of 5 MByte of memory split between two processor boards (4 MByte scalar and 1 MByte vector memory). A further 32 sx nodes and concurrent i/o system with 1.5 GBytes of disc were funded by ICI plc. reduced again to 32 nodes to fund ICI's stake in the iPSC/860. The system became obsolete and too expensive to maintain in 1993, it was however still being used in 1994 for system code development. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/parallel.html HOC.01.0023 Retained 1987 Intel iPSC2 node board - had Intel 80386 main processor and 80387 arithmetic co-processor. An iPSC2 machine, one cabinet with 32 of these boards, cost $750k dollars when it was launched in 1985. HOC.01.0024 Retained 1987 Intel iPSC2 VP co-processing board - ADSP-3210 and ADSP-3220 floating point accelerator units as also used in the FPS-264 array computer c.1985 capable of 10Mflop/s per processor. HOC.01.0025 Retained 1988 Intel USM2 Universal Service Module - this is a control board, part of the iPSC2 super computer. HOC.01.0026 Retained 1988 Intel iPSC NB Node Board - in addition to an Intel 80386 PC type scalar processer this had extra memory and 2x Weitek vector processors. HOC.01.0027 Photos and documents 1988-94 images/convex_c220_darsbury.jpg The Convex system was installed in 1988 initially with one processor and 128 MBytes of main memory. This was some four times faster than the AS/7000. Early in 1989 a second processor and further 128 MBytes of memory was delivered. This two-processor system was in use until 1994. An identical system from Birkbeck College London is in the Jim Austin Computer Museum. http://www.computermuseum.org.uk/fixed_pages/convex_c220.html HOC.01.0028 Photos and documents 1990-96 images/ipsc860_rja.jpg The Intel iPSC/860 was a RISC-based distributed memory parallel computer using i860 processors and launched by Intel in 1990. Our system was installed in June 1990 and initially had 32 nodes each with 8 MB memory (later 16 MB). It was upgraded to 64 nodes in 1993 following the first successful year of a national peer reviewed service. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/parallel.html HOC.01.0029 Retained 1989 Intel i860 node board - featuring large 80860 processor instead of the earlier 80386. HOC.01.0030 Retained 1990 Meiko Ltd. (Bristol) Mk086 parallel computer board with 4x T800 transputers and 2x Intel i860 vector accelerators from the M60. Certain mathematical operations (scalar) were performed on the transputers and others (vector) on the i860s which gave added performance. However these boards were expensive and hard to program. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/parallel.html HOC.01.0031 HOC.01.0032 Photos and documents 1990-3 Computing Surface - 4x T800 Transputer nodes were moved from the M10 and 10 Intel i860 nodes were added in a new Meiko M60 chassis funded by Engineering Board in 1990 to support similar systems in a number of UK Universities. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/parallel.html HOC.01.0033 Photos and documents 1989-94 images/stardent.jpg A total of three processors. The 2 processor machine was bought with industrial funding in 1989 to run molecular modelling software (such as BIOGRAF) which requires good graphical facilities, and for the simulation and modelling of polymers. Both machines were switched off in mid-March 1994 as they had become obsolete and too expensive to maintain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardent_Inc. HOC.01.0034 Retained c.1990 AST 4/33 SX portable computer - 80386 processor running at 33 MHz. Microsoft DOS and Windows 3.1 software. HOC.01.0035 Retained c.1996 Micro Star-6382 socket based motherboad for Time PC using 1.4 MHz AMD Athlon processor. HOC.01.0036 Retained (3x items) c.1982 images/BBC-B.jpg BBC Microcomputer made by Acorn. Not tested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro HOC.01.0037 Retained 1983 images/trs80.jpg Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 kit based computer with 1.77 MHz Zilog Z80 CPU and 4 kB RAM launched in Aug'1977. The Model 100 was launched in 1983 and has 32kB RAM and 80C85 CMOS processor. Can be programmed in Basic. Working https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100 HOC.01.0038 Retained c.1995 images/selenar.jpg Selenar Hirez graphics terminal and keyboard, many of which were used at the Laboratory to access the data collection and analysis systems. Some were also used as remote university terminals over low bandwidth modem links. https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102735371 HOC.01.0039 Retained 1986 images/Commodore64.jpg Commodore 64C computer revision from 1986. 8-bit MOS 8510 CPU with 64 kB memory. Currently not working https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 HOC.01.0040 Alan Ruddell, RAL 1985 PC2-186 personal computer with keyboard and dual floppy drives. Research Machines was a UK company based in Oxford. The PC2 was available from c.Mar'1985 and used the 80186 CPU [check ours has this]. Originally used at the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory. Working but needs OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM_Nimbus HOC.01.0041 Retained (several) 1983 Available from June 1977 onwards. Used MOS 6502 CPU. Apple IIe originally used at the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory received from Alan Ruddell, RAL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe HOC.01.0042 Retained 1991 images/A5000.jpg Acorn A5000 25 MHz 32-bit ARM-3 CPU based computer with 4 MB memory. The range was launched in June 1987 and the A5000 in 1991. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes HOC.01.0043 Retained 1994 images/acorn.jpg Next generation system from Acorn launched in Apr'1994. Typically used the ARM-610 CPU running at 33 MHz. Applications include word processing. Working HOC.01.0044 Alan Ruddell, RAL 1986 images/tandon.jpg Tandon TM7632 PC plus monitor, kbd and removable disc packs. This is believed to be a Tandon Plus TM76 model with 80286 processor and 32 kB memory [TBC]. Originally used at the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory. Working but needs OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandon_Corporation HOC.01.0045 Retained c.1966 memory board from DataProducts Corporation, Los Angeles HOC.01.0046 Retained 1979 Perkin Elmer D2118-7 S7181 integrated circuit memory board. 320 MB? HOC.01.0047 Retained 1982 processor board with ROM (unknown, possibly Perkin-Elmer?) HOC.01.0048 Retained dual 5'' floppy drive HOC.01.0049 Retained HOC.01.0050 Retained PowerPC x2 HOC.01.0051 Photos and documents from mid-1995 IBM SP2 parallel computer. It originally had 2x "thick" nodes and 14x "thin" TN2 nodes. The latter were upgraded to 24x P2SC nodes each with 256 MB memory in Aug'1997. These had Power2 processors. http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/6535/IBM-RS-6000-SP2-Type-7025 HOC.01.0052 Photos and documents 2003-10 images/HPCxPhoto_mar06.jpg The national supercomputing service known as HPCx was installed at Daresbury in various stages during 2003-10. It was a large IBM parallel computer. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/hpcx.html HOC.01.0053 Retained c.2005-10 images/bgl_board.jpg Processor board and 10x node cards from BlueGene/L system. The system itself was on loan from IBM and returned in 2010. A similar complete BlueGene/L system from EPCC is now in the Jim Austin Computer Museum. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/bluegene.html HOC.01.0054 Retained c.2007-12 images/bgp_board.jpg Processor board and node cards from BG/P system. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/bluegene.html HOC.01.0055 Retained (2x items) ATI FireGL X3 graphics card qith 128 MB memory used as a visualisation pipeline in SGI Prism computer system. HOC.01.0056 Retained (2x items) c.2008 Server from IBM BladeCenter. This was a development system with IBM-Sony multi-core PowerXCell 8i technology based on Cell BE (Broadband Engine Architecture) as used in PlayStation-3. This was the technology used in RoadRunner at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, the world's fastest computer in 2008-9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(processor) HOC.01.0057 Retained (3x boards) images/xeon_phi.jpg Xeon Phi KNC ES2 57-core MAKC1KMBQ MPSS code name Knight's Corner model 3120P 1.1GHz launched 2Q13 vendor's product id 225d. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi One board on display in IPCC office A-block. HOC.01.0058 Retained (several items) 2012 images/bgq_processor.jpg Full processor shelf from BlueGene/Q system plus several processor cards. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/bluegene.html HOC.01.0059 Retained c.1986 PC system launched by Alan Sugar's company in Sep'1985 with 3.4 MHz Zilog Z80 processor, 256 kB RAM and one 3-1/2'' compact floppy drive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_PCW HOC.01.0060 Retained c.1988 Portable PC with 20 MB hard disk drive and 3-1/2" floppy drive (requires 9V DC 2.5A power). The PC has an 80188 compatible NEC V-40 micro-processor running at 7.16 MHz and has 256 kB memory. HOC.01.0061 Retained portable PC HOC.01.0062 Retained mini-floppy drive HOC.01.0063 Retained 1982 images/cbm.jpg The Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) was introduced in 1977 and was very popular in educational markets. The one in our collection is a CBM (Commodore Business Machine) model 3032 from c.1979. The machine uses a 8-bit MOS (formerly Motorola) 6502 CPU running at 1 MHz and has 32 kB memory on a 16-bit bus. It can be programmed in BASIC. Working https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET HOC.01.0064 Phil Aikman images/leo_memory.jpg possibly from LEO system IV? HOC.01.0065 Paul Kummer organiser 1998 HOC.01.0066 Steve Jordan 1977 images/cray1_module.jpg Cray-1 128k memory module https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/cray-1s.html HOC.01.0067 University of Edinburgh images/cray_xt3_board.jpg The Cray XT4 node board with 4x dual-core processor sockets was used on HECToR Phase-1 at EPCC. The processor was an AMD 2.8 GHz Opteron. Each dual-core socket shares 6 GB of memory. The theoretical peak performance of with 1,416 of these boards was 59 Tflop/s. On Phase-2A they were replaced with quad-core Opterons with 2.3 GHz clock speed and 8 GB memory per socket. The system was then capable of up to 208 Tflop/s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_XT3 HOC.01.0068 Steve Jordan 1979 images/seymour_signature.jpg DL Visitors' Book. Photograph showing Seymour Cray's signature from 21/9/1979. Some other visitors included: 18/10/1979: Dave Rowlstone, Operations; Dave Haworth, Head of Systems Group; Sean Dunne, Head of Applications; Ric Collins, Head of Compilers; Keith Fielding, NAG CDC Co-ordinator. And 18/11/1979: Vriju Aswani, Director of Systems and Operations. All from Manchester. The roles are as remembered by Mike Ashworth and Mike Pettipher. The centre was called University of Manchester Regional Computing Centre (UMRCC) from Nov'1979. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/cray-1s.html HOC.01.0069 Rob Allan Personal organiser running Windows ME. I won this at a computer workshop at the Williams F1 Conference Centre organised by Platform Computing. HOC.01.0070 Rob Allan 2004-6 I used this iconic red laptop computer with 64-bit Athlon processor for work from 2004-2006. Unfortunately it suffered from a known motherboard fault after just over two years. HOC.01.0071 Rob Allan 1977 49 button scientific calculator which I bought while studying Physics at Royal Holloway College London in 1977. I had to save up for this! HOC.01.0072 Rob Allan Single sided model slide rule HOC.01.0073 Rob Allan https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/artefacts/dl.books.html HOC.01.0074 Rob Allan Anyone remember them? I used this book at school... https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/artefacts/dl.books.html HOC.01.0075 Tim Franks various Apple and MacIntosh computers HOC.01.0076 images/cray_sx6_board.jpg University of Edinburgh Cray XE6 processor board from HECToR Phase-2B at EPCC. This has 8x AMD Opteron processors configured as 4x dual processor nodes with a proprietary inter-connect. Each node has two 12-core AMD Opteron 2.1 GHz Magny Cours processors. Each 12-core socket is coupled with a Cray Gemini routing and communications chip. Each 12-core processor shares 16 GB of memory. The theoretical peak performance of the HECToR Phase-2B system with 464 of these boards was over 360 Tflop/s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_XE6 HOC.01.0077 Retained (2 items) CB72/03 store driver module plus core memory with cover removed. HOC.01.0078 Retained (2x items) 1982-3 Z8400A Processor Boards HOC.01.0079 Retained 1960s? Small circuit boards carrying the DNPL mark (Daresbury Nuclear Physics Laboratory) purpose unknown. HOC.01.0080 Retained nVidia Galaxy graphics card. HOC.01.0081 Retained Liteon M280 PC mother board. HOC.01.0082 Retained (2x items) 1999 DEC Alpha processor as used in Loki compute cluster. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/clusters.html HOC.01.0083 Retained c.1993 IBM Thinkpad portable PC and power supply. HOC.01.0084-84a Retained (2x items) 1982 images/electron.jpg Acorn Electron 8-bit computer with 32 kB memory. Computer ran programs in BBC Basic which could be saved and loaded from audio casette. Display used a TV monitor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Electron working HOC.01.0085 Retained 2000 Sun Ultra SCSI with keyboard HOC.01.0086 Retained (University of Liverpool) early 1960s HP graph plotter/ X-Y recorder. HOC.01.0087 Retained images/Sun-Ultra-10.jpg Sun Ultra 10 and keyboard. This machine had a 333 MHz 64-bit Ultra-SPARC processor and 256 MB memory. HOC.01.0088 Retained 2002 images/hpcx_sign.jpg HPCx door entry sign. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/hpcx.html HOC.01.0089 Retained 1980-86 Ring-bound Manuals: CAL Assembler V1 Reference SR-0000. Fortran (CFT) Reference SR-0009; Cray OS V1 Reference SR-0011 (2 copies); Programmers' Library Reference SR-0113; https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/artefacts/dl.books.html HOC.01.0090 Retained Aug'1984 Documentation in ring binder: Cray 1S/1000 Handbook; Amdahl 470 V/8 Handbook. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/artefacts/dl.books.html HOC.01.0091 Retained 28/1/1999 images/43p.jpg IBM RISC System/6000 43P model 260 workstation (type 7043) SN 44-5550A. Two Power3 processors running at 200 MHz with 256 MB RAM, 9.1 GB SCSI disc, and P72 colour monitor. Manuals and CD installation media also retained. HOC.01.0092 Retained July 1975, Mar'1976 IBM 360 Manuals in ring binders: IBM System/360 Messages and Codes Release OS 21.7; JCL Reference Manual OS Release 21.7. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/artefacts/dl.books.html HOC.01.0093 Retained photo-copies 1989-94 Copies of original Intel documentation and local user guides: iPSC/2 VAST2 User's Guide (Feb'1989); iPSC/2 User's Guide (Mar'1989); iPSC/2 VX User's Guide (June 1989); iPSC/2 Programmer's Reference Manual (Oct'1989); iPSC/2 and iPSC/860 Math Libraries Reference (Apr'1990); iPSC/2 and iPSC/860 User's Guide (Oct'1990); iPSC/860 Fortran Compiler User's Guide (Apr'1991); iPSC/2 and iPSC/860 User's Guide (Apr'1991); iPSC/2 and iPSC/860 Programmer's Reference Manual (Apr'1991); Introduction to the Intel iPSC/860 and iPSC/2 Supercomputers (Dec'1991); iPSC/860 Fortran Compiler User's Guide (Jan'1993); Introduction to the Intel iPSC/860 Supercomputer (Jan'1994); https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/artefacts/dl.books.html HOC.01.0094 Retained not known Local User Guide for the HPC Cluster at Daresbury Laboratory. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/artefacts/dl.books.html HOC.01.0095 Retained photo-copies Oct'1988 Convex Documentation: VECLIB User's Guide 3rd edn. (Oct'1988); Unix for Beginners, Module 3 (Mar'1987). https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/artefacts/dl.books.html HOC.01.0096 Retained This machine was known as TCS2. It had a 333 MHz 64-bit Ultra-SPARC processor and 128 MB memory. SN TW94264285 HOC.01.0097 Retained various General books about computing are listed in the following URL. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/artefacts/dl.books.html HOC.01.0098 Retained various Reports on Computer procurement, funding and progress. https://www.scorpion-engineering.co.uk/computing_history/artefacts/dl.books.html HOC.01.0099 Retained (RAL) 1962-64 images/badenia.jpg Badenia VARE-17 rotary calculator SN 536115. It pre-dates the electronic calculators in our collection. This machine was the last type of mechanical drum calculator developed by EMBEE (Mathias Baeuerle GmbH, St.Georgen, Schwarzland, Germany). It was purchased from Badenia Calculators Ltd., Red Lion Street, Holborn. Original use at the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory is not recorded. User manual in German from a US collector http://history-computer.com/MechanicalCalculators/20thCentury/Bauerle.html y HOC.01.0100 Retained c.2002 images/netvista.jpg IBM 44P Model 1283 [TBC] desktop PC with Pentium-4 processor. This machine was used in association with the HPCx service as a hardware management console. SN YH1051002741 HOC.01.0101 images/transnote.jpg Retained c.2001 IBM Thinkpad TransNode portable PC and power supply. 600 MHz Pentium III processor, 64 MB memory and 10 GB disk running Windows 2000 Professional. The attached notepad uses a digital pen and had 2 MB flash memory. Display is touch screen TFT. Original cost was over $3,000 so not many were sold and this type were soon replaced by the tablet PC. Currently not working http://pencomputing.com/frames/ibm_transnote.html HOC.01.0102 Bill Smith 1982 images/electron.jpg Acorn Electron 8-bit computer SN 06-ALA01-0087952. Working with power supply and data recorder (cassette drive). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Electron HOC.01.0103 retained c.1987 IBM Personal System/2 Model 30 286 was an entry level personal computer with 80286 processor, 1.44 MB diskette drive. Standard memory was 640 kB and 20 MB fixed disk. The machine ran PC DOS v3.3. HOC.01.0104 retained October 2003 images/IBM-615e.jpg IBM e-Server pSeries 615 Model 6C3 or 6E3. One or two Power4+ processors running at either 1.2 GHz or 1.45 GHz. Up to 16 GB memory. Operating system AIX 5L 5.2. Up to 8 ultraSCSI hot swap disk drives (1174.4 GB). These were the front end control processors for the HPCx service. One working HOC.01.0105 Retained c.1993 IBM RISC System PowerPC 601 workstation Model 250. PowerPC 601 processor running at 66 MHz, 2.88 MB floppy drive, up to 256 MB memory. Operating system AIX 4.3 or 5.1L. HOC.01.0106 Retained: door, ATI cards and photographs only c.2006 Silicon Graphics Inc. visualisation computer. Up to 16x Intel Itanium2 1.5 GHz CPUs with 32 GB system memory. 4x ATI GFX 128 MB graphics pipes. Operating system SuSE Linux. The machine was connected via terminal concentrators to a MechDyne visualisation system comprising of dual projectors and a polarised screen for 3D visualisation in a neighbouring building. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Prism HOC.01.0107 Retained c.1993 SGI Indy graphics workstation. Processor was MPIS R4000 or R5000 running at 100 MHz with up to 256 MB memory. Operating system was IRIX 5.1. The Indigo had on board graphics and sound hardware. HOC.01.0108 Retained c.1996 SGI O2 entry level Unix graphics workstation which replaced the Indy series. [check which CPU in ours] Operating system was IRIX 6. Built in Imaging and Compression Engine ASIC for streaming media. HOC.01.0109 Retained 1992 images/A3020.jpg Acorn A3020 evolution of BBC micro-computer. ARM 250 32-bit RISC processor running at 12 MHz, 2 MB memory. RISC-OS with BBC Basic in ROM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes working, but no disk HOC.01.0110 Retained c.2005 images/Sun-Ultra-20.jpg Sun Ultra 20 and keyboard. AMD Opteron x86 processor up to g GB memory. HOC.01.0111 Retained c.2006 images/Sun-Blade-150.jpg Sun Blade 150. UltraSPARC IIi processor running at 550 MHz. Solaris OS. HOC.01.0112 Retained c.1998 images/Power-Mac-G3.jpg Power MacIntosh G3 tower beige model with PowerPC CPU running at 233 (or 333) MHz Working HOC.01.0113 Retained images/IBM-RS6000.jpg IBM RISC System workstation. Model yet to be identified. HOC.01.0114 Alan Ruddell, RAL c.1980 RM Nimbus Manual, MS-DOS 3.1 and RM Basic. HOC.01.0115 Donated by Kenneth Shearson who worked as an export buyer for SCOA and was awarded a medal from the French government for his service to industry. c.1961 images/odhner.jpg Original Odhner Arithmometer Model 227 (pinwheel calculator). This one made in Sweden between 1955-1970. S.N.837850. With user manuals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinwheel_calculator HOC.01.0116 retained 2004 images/virtex4.jpg Xilinx (now AMD) Virtex-4 FPGA evaluation platform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtex_(FPGA) HOC.01.0117 Rob Allan c.2009 HP 10.1" netbook with Intel Atom N270 1,6 GHz 32-bit processor, 1 GB memory and 160 GB disc. This one running Centos-6. HOC.01.0118 Stephen Hill c.1978 NASCOM-1 home computer kit with 2 MHz Z80 CPU, 2 kB RAM, keyboard and video interface. with manuals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nascom HOC.01.0119 Retained (several) images/60M_80M_discs.jpg IBM 60MB and 80MB disc drives. HOC.01.0120-22 Retained (several) images/floppy_drives.jpg 8" and 5-1/2" floppy disc drives. HOC.01.0123 Retained c.1982 Dragon 32 from Dragon Data Ltd., Swansea. Has the 8-bit Motorola 6809 processor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_32/64