Ferranti Pegasus Computer (Vickers Weybridge & Admiralty Research Laboratory)

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Just happened to stumble across this interesting account of the use of the Ferranti Pegasus computer at Vickers and the ARL during the mid-1950s to solve various mathematical problems relating to aviation and naval technology.
http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/resurrection/res14.htm#f

The author Donald Kershaw, a Reader Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Lancaster, sadly died just before Christmas.
 
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