December 2020 – Tony Pritchett eBook

Recently, two of my biggest eBook related problems were solved in one fell swoop by Terry Froggatt and The Elliott 903.

025 > Terry Froggatt & Elliott’s

Digitisation Progress / Domestic Archeology / Thank you

In 1963 Tony joined Elliott Automation as a sales trainee. He was a bright young spark, but a bad time at school had resulted in him not shining as brightly…

Above: Tony Pritchett and 'The Chilton Atlas' (console). The 'Atlas Laboratory' was situated at Harwell A.E.R.E. (which is now home to The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory). Photo by Nigel Kellaway.

024 > RAL Lecture

Domestic Archeology / Rutherford Appleton / Screening / Talk

Professor David Duce, Dr Victoria Marshall and myself gave a lecture on how (we think!) Tony Pritchett made Britain's first piece of computer animation, The Flexipede.The talk was based on…