Rutherford Appleton – Tony Pritchett eBook

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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

The Chilton Atlas console. Thanks to Dr. Victoria Marshall, this once cutting-edge supercomputer technology no longer lies abandoned in a warehouse.

014 > Dr. Victoria Marshall

Domestic Archeology / Rutherford Appleton / Thank you

When she's not poking around in dusty warehouses, Dr. Marshall manages the diagnostic computers which run the Astra Gemini laser at Rutherford Laboratory, developing software to control, analyse and monitor…