Atlas designer and British computer pioneer Tom Kilburn at the Manchester Atlas console on its last day of operation
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- Details
- Description
- Date
- 1971
- Credit Line
- Courtesy of the University of Manchester
- Copyright Owner
- © University of Manchester
- Keywords
- Ferranti; Atlas (computer); University of Manchester; Kilburn, Tom
- Object ID
- 500004283
Kilburn helped design sophisticated computers at Manchester from 1947 (the "Baby") to the early 1970s (the MU5). The last of the many honors he received before his death in 2001 was being made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum.
