December 2020 – Tony Pritchett eBook

A photo of Terry Froggatt's Elliot 903. In 1963, Tony learned to program using an Elliot 803. Tony: “I suddenly found something I could do! I thought, wow, this is wonderful. It felt natural to me.”

024 > Terry Froggatt & Elliott’s

Digitisation Progress / Domestic Archeology / Thank you

Recently, two of my biggest eBook related problems were solved in one fell swoop by Terry Froggatt and his Elliott 903. Problem One: Elliott Automation History Gaps: I have some…

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.

023 > 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…