Computers
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Archives of the Mathematical Laboratory and its successor, the Computer Laboratory, 1934 - 2006
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/COMP
Scope and Contents
The archives comprise limited quantities of administrative material, including of the Computing Service. Much more significant are the surviving records of EDSAC and EDSAC 2 [Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator], among the earliest electronic computers, developed in the late 1940s and 1950s.
Dates:
1934 - 2006
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Biographical papers, 1906 - 1955
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LEJO items 1-13
Scope and Contents
Includes memoir by Sir Nevill Mott (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 1, November 1955); school reports and letter from St. John's College, Cambridge, 1906-12; papers relating to the Royal Flying Corps, 1915; correspondence with Horace Lamb; report on computing at University of Cambridge, 1937-8; notes and correspondence relatinng to the establishment of new college at Cambridge and application for grant, 1946-8 & 1951; obituaries, 1954; and papers relating to...
Dates:
1906 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Correspondence about Tower Hamlets housing database, 1995 - 1998
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/YUNG 1/6/15
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Comprising correspondence and papers about projects, visits and ideas.
Dates:
1995 - 1998
Fonds
Records of the Cambridge University Computer Preservation Society, 1996 - 2002
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.XXXIV
Scope and Contents
The records comprise minutes and papers of business meetings and speaker meetings; historical accounts of the society; list of officers; flyers from Societies Fair; and accounts. They include a detailed list of contents, prepared by Joseph Myers (Trinity College, 1995).
Dates:
1996 - 2002
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).