Summary
Agenda and correspondence relating to a Conference on Data Processing and Automatic Computing Machines, organised by the Commonwealth Department of Supply at the Weapons Research Establishment, Salisbury, South Australia in June 1957.
The correspondence includes a request from John Allen-Ovenstone for Thomas Cherry to deliver a paper and to provide speakers for part of the conference. Also included is a report of a conference on Industrial Uses of Analogue Computers, held in Kansas City in April 1956 and notification of an Electronic Computer Exhibition and Symposium to be held in London in 1958.
Correspondence details:
25/4/56 Conference paper/Kansas City Industrial Uses of Analogue Computers.
28/11/58 Notice Electronic Computer Exhibition & Symposium notice.
3/6/57 Notice Conference on Data Processing & Automatic Computing to be held at WRE, SA.
12/3/57 WRE to T.M. Cherry Conference-request for T.M. Cherry to deliver paper and arrange further speakers.
24/3/57 WRE to T.M. Cherry Program draft and details.
16/4/57 J.M. Bennett to T.M. Cherry Will have limited time available at conference.
More Information
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Computer Science & Software Engineering Department, University of Melbourne (The), by Jul 2003
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Creator
Professor Thomas M. Cherry - University of Melbourne (The), Grattan Street, Parkville, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1956
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User
Computation Laboratory, University of Melbourne (The), Grattan Street, Parkville, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1956-1957
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Collector
CSIRAC History Team, Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1995 or later
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Classification
Computing & calculating, Digital computing, Paperwork & documentation
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Keywords
Computing, CSIRAC (Computer), First Generation Computers, Mainframe Computers, Making History - CSIRAC
