Moving Targets charts the gradual take-up of Information
Technology in Britain, as seen through the eyes of one innovative
company Elliott-Automation and remembered by those who worked for
that company. The story touches on the strategic, technical and
economic history of the 1950s and 1960s, through such themes as:
secret computers built for the Admiralty and for GCHQ at Elliott 's
Borehamwood Laboratories; the changing balance between analogue and
digital techniques; the challenges of commercial data processing
and the marketing arrangement between Elliott and NCR; the
introduction of low-cost, reliable computers and their application
to industrial control and to avionics; the growing importance of
software and the Elliott Algol compiler; and the market rivalry
between the Elliotts and other British computer manufacturers such
as English Electric and Ferranti Ltd.
Simon Lavington, M.Sc., Ph.D., FIEE, FBCS, is emeritus professor
of Computer Science at the University of Essex and the author of
many publications. He retired in 2002 and is a committee member of
the BCS Computer Conservation Society.
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