This chapter is on computer printout paper and has numbered lines rather than page numbers. It is numbered Chapter 12: it is not clear whether there is a missing Chapter 11.
In this chapter L J S discusses Titan, a third generation computer produced by International Computers and Tabulators (ICL) and in part designed in Cambridge. She describes the machine, its arrival at the Computer Laboratory, a ‘funeral for Edsac II’, and the increase of the Cambridge computing load under Titan, running for ten years until the installation of VDUs and keyboard replaced paper tapes and punched cards. She also mentions the death of Eric Mutch, second in command at the Computing Laboratory.
L J S then recalls Dr Wilkes’ wish to move to ‘IBM orientated American systems’, once Titan was ‘outmoded’ and ‘overburdened’ by the early 1970s; debate over other contenders; and the arrival in 1972 of the IBM 370.