Rutherford Appleton – Tony Pritchett eBook

Photographing GRAM (a computer animation system that Tony was developing for The Open University), listings and then sending the files to Professors David Duce and Bob Hopgood. More about this in a later post.

029 > Update

Domestic Archeology / Filmmaking / Rutherford Appleton / Thank you

Just a quick update to say that this project is still very much in progress. I haven't created any blog posts since January this year, but that's not to say…

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…

016 > ROM

Random Walk / Rutherford Appleton

I asked Prof. Bob Hopgood some questions about the early computing industry and he was kind enough to answer them.This is a bit of a long blog post that only…

015 > Fortran for Algernon

Domestic Archeology / Random Walk / Rutherford Appleton / Thank you

There’s a lot archive materials in my house and garage relating to the birth and evolution of the computer animation (and computer graphics) industry.The archive truly is a thing of…