Computer Conservation Society

Past Events

Here is a consolidated list of the past events many of which can be viewed on YouTube. The list is searchable using your brower’s “Find” facility.

In each case the symbol is a link to the video where available. Underlined lecture titles are a link to a web page with a brief description of the lecturer and the lecturer.

A few of the earliest lectures were written up in the Society’s Resurrection journal. Links to these articles are indicated by the symbol.

The list is subdivided by season as follows –

2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2022-2023 2021-2022 2020-2021

2019-2020 2018-2019 2017-2018 2016-2017 2015-2016 2014-2015 2013-2014 2012-2013 2011-2012 2010-2011

2009-2010 2008-2009 2007-2008 2006-2007 2005-2006 2004-2005 2003-2004 2002-2003 2001-2002 2000-2001

1999-2000 1998-1999 1997-1998 1996-1997 1995-1996 1994-1995 1993-1994 1992-1993 1991-1992 1990-1991

1989-1990 Other Videos

Thu 20^th Nov 2025

The Cambridge Multiple-Access System Barry Landy

Thu 16^th Oct 2025

Annual General Meeting (at 14:00)
The WITCH Simulator
Jerry McCarthy

Thu 18^th Sep 2025

Gordon Pask – cybernetician, inventor and polymath David Upton

Thu 22^nd May 2025

Lore Harp & Vector Graphic: Silicon Valley’s Forgotten Female Microcomputer Pioneers Gareth Edwards

Thu 17^th Apr 2025

Pandaemonium – Generating the Unexpected David Link

Thu 20^th Mar 2025

Newnham and Bletchley Park: Women’s Work in World War II Sally Waugh

Fri 28^th Feb 2025

Leonardo Torres Quevedo: Pioneer of Computing, Automatics, and Artificial Intelligence Francisco A. González Redondo

Thu 20^th Feb 2025

Towards a History of British HCI Elisabetta Mori

Thu 16^th Jan 2025

Strategic Contribution of Bombe & Colossus in WW2
Sadly this lecture was postponed. Hopefully it will be rescheduled at a later date.

Thu 12^th Dec 2024

Film Show Dan Hayton

Thu 21^st Nov 2024

The Web before the Web: Putting the Hype into Hypertext Ian Ritchie

Thu 17^th Oct 2024

Computer Ethics

Chris Rees

Thu 19^th Sep 2024

Early Soviet Computing

Jerry McCarthy

Tue 29^th Apr 2025

50 Years of the ICL New Range Kevin Hughes

Tue 24^rd Sep 2024

Manchester’s Computer Art Pioneer. Elaine O’Hanrahan

Wed 22^nd May 2024

Tony Sale Award Award Winner

Thu 18^th Apr 2024

EDSAC Programming Andrew Herbert

Thu 21^st Mar 2024

Eldon 2 Multi Access System at Leeds University David Holdsworth

Thu 15^th Feb 2024

Tiny ACE – Exploring Alan Turing’s Automatic Computing Engine Jürgen Müller

Thu 18^th Jan 2024

Marconi – Another British Computer Manufacturer Alan Hartley-Smith

Thu 14^th Dec 2023

Cray Computer Films Clive England

Thu 16^th Nov 2023

Software Archeology: The Medley Interlisp Modernisation Project Stephen Kaisler

Thu 12^th Oct 2023

ChatGPT’s Astonishing Fabrications about Percy Ludgate Brian Randell

Thu 21^st Sep 2023

South London’s Rôle in the History of Telecoms Alan Burkitt-Grey

Tue 26^th Mar 2024

History of the Janet Network Robin Tasker

Tue 23^th Jan 2024

The LeoIII Reloaded David Holdsworth

Tue 28^th Nov 2023

Computing Diagrams Guy Marshall

Thu 18^th May 2023

QR Codes for Beginners Tony Davies

Thu 20^th Apr 2023

Kathleen Booth – UK Computer Pioneer Roger Johnson

Thu 16^th Mar 2023

Programming an ICT 1900 – and how we wrote Maximop for QMC’s ICL 1905E Arthur Dransfield

Thu 16^th Feb 2023

The Mobile Revolution: the Early Days of Cellular, 1983 - 1993. A Personal View. John Carrington

Thu 19^th Jan 2023

Birth of the Barcode Derrick Brown

Thu 15^th Dec 2022

Film Show Dan Hayton

Thu 17^th Nov 2022

Edinburgh Multi Access System (EMAS) Bob Eager

Mon 24^th Oct 2022

Annual General Meeting at 14:00 followed by –
Singer System Ten – ICL’s Surprise Success Story. John Panter + Alan Wakefield & Mike Knight

Tue 30^th May 2023

Alan Turing’s Manchesterxx Jonathan Swinton

Tue 28^th Mar 2023

Collecting Memories: Oral History With British Computer Pioneers Dr Tom Lean

Tue 31^st Jan 2023

The evolution of digital cellular data communications Andy Sutton

Thu 19^th May 2022

From Public Service Provider to Clandestine War Workshop: The Post Office Engineering Research Station in the mid-twentieth century Rachel Boon

Thu 21^st Apr 2022

A mathematical machine: Max Newman and early computing at Manchester, 1946 - 1951 Simon Lavington

Thu 17^th Mar 2022

Four (or more) Interesting Enigma-like Crypto Machines Jerry McCarthy

Thu 17^th Feb 2022

Learning from History: Reflections on past and future of the British IT Industry Dr Sam Blaxland, John Carrington & Dr Tom Abram

Thu 6^th Jan 2022

Internet, the Early Days

This event was online-only and was organised by Archives of IT.

Vint Cerf

Thu 16^th Dec 2021

Film Show Dan Hayton

Thu 18^th Nov 2021

The Origins of GENESYS, the General Engineering System (Part 2) Brian Shearing

Thu 21^st Oct 2021

Digitising Hollywood – the Development of Digital Recording for Cinema Delwyn Holroyd

Thu 16^th Sep 2021

Investigating the Work and Life of Percy Ludgate (1883-1922) Brian Randell

None

Thu 20^th May 2021

Historiography of the History of Computing Doron Swade

Thu 15^th Apr 2021

Cash and Dash: How ATMs and Computers Changed Banking Bernardo Batiz-Lazo

Thu 18^th Mar 2021

A world first! Early real-time systems in the 1960s steel industry – the technology, the developers and the users. Geoff Henderson

Thu 18^th Feb 2021

What do you get when you try to build a global communications technology using snail mail? David Grier

Tue 02^nd Feb 2021

The History of ICL Revisited for NW Martin Campbell-Kelly

Thu 21^th Jan 2021

Early Australian computer developments including CSIRAC and the work of Trevor Pearcey Barbara Ainsworth

Thu 17^th Dec 2020

Computer Films Dan Hayton

Tue 1^st Dec 2020

The Demise of Ferranti Prof. John Wilson

Thu 19^th Nov 2020

The Origins of GENESYS, the General Engineering System Brian Shearing

Thu 29^th Oct 2020

Annual General Meeting (details here ) at 14:00 followed by –
The Evolution of LEO, the World's First Business Computer John Daines

Mon 21^st Sep 2020

Anecdotes,lessons learned and the rocky thrill of a colourful career and volunteering in the IT Business Michael Grant

None

Tue 22^nd Oct 2019

Recreating the Polish Bomba, Predecessor to the Turing-Welchman Bombe Jerry McCarthy

Mon 16^th Mar 2020

Universal cryptanalytic machine – a dream come true Marek Grajek

Thu 20^th Feb 2020

Alan Turing’s Manchester Jonathan Swinton

Thu 16^th Jan 2020

The First Day as a Programmer for the Manchester Mark 1 Olaf Chedzoy

Thu 12^th Dec 2019

Computer Films Dan Hayton

Thu 21^st Nov 2019

Computing at Jodrell Bank Ian Morison

Thu 17^th Oct 2019

Annual General Meeting (at 14:00) +

Role of Computer Museums and Studying Computer Science Jochen Viehoff & Johannes Blobel

Thu 19^th Sep 2019

The History of ICL Revisited Martin Campbell-Kelly

Tue 18^th Feb 2020

Marconi – Another British Computer Manufacturer Alan Hartley-Smith

Tue 21^st Jan 2020

Rewriting History – the past, present and future of digital archiving David Ryan

Tue 19^th Nov 2019

Bloodhound Missile Preservation. Peter Harry

Tue 17^th Sep 2019

The Evolution of LEO, the World’s First Business Computer. John Daines

Thu 16^th May 2019

Recreating the Polish Bomba, Predecessor to the Turing-Welchman Bombe Jerry McCarthy

Thu 18^th Apr 2019

CICS 50^th Anniversary Paul Martynenko & colleagues

Thu 21^st Mar 2019

Design of Ferranti Argus 400 for Industrial Process Control John Steele

Thu 21^st Feb 2019

Olivetti and the Early Italian Computers Elisabetta Mori

Thu 17^th Jan 2019

Stardust: tales from the early days of computing, 1948 – 1958 Simon Lavington

Thu 13^th Dec 2018

Readings from Hamish Carmichael’s An ICL Anthology and its Sucessors — Published and Unpublished. Dik Leatherdale & Rod Brown

Thu 15^th Nov 2018

Tony Sale Award Winner’s Lecture

Thu 25^th Oct 2018

Annual General Meeting (at 14:00) +

Cold War to Coal Trains: TOPS – British Railways’ First Train Operating System Jonathan Aylen

Thu 20^th Sep 2018

ICL 1900 Emulation & Software Recovery Bill Gallagher, David Holdsworth, Delwyn Holroyd & Brian Spoor

Tue 19^th Mar 2019

Readings from Hamish Carmichael’s An ICL Anthology and its Successors — Published and Unpublished. Dik Leatherdale & Rod Brown

Tue 19^th Feb 2019

Stardust: tales from the early days of computing, 1948 – 1958
N.B. in room 5.05 Simon Lavington

Tue 15^th Jan 2019

Computing at Jodrell Bank
N.B. in room 5.05 Ian Morison

Tue 27^th Nov 2018

Cold War to Coal Trains: TOPS – British Railways’ First Train Operating System This is a joint meeting with the Newcomen Society at the Science and Industry Museum. 17:30 for 18:00 Jonathan Aylen

Tue 16^th Oct 2018

EDSAC Replica Project – Lessons Learned Andrew Herbert & Chris Burton

Tue 18^th Sep 2018

KDF9 – Mature reflections on its hardware and software David Holdsworth

Thu 17^th May 2018

The Elliott 401 Project Rod Brown & Chris Burton

Thu 19^th Apr 2018

Constructing the EDSAC Replica - Lessons Learned Andrew Herbert & Chris Burton

Thu 15^th Mar 2018

Founding of the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), its Early Days and its Rôle Today Brian Ford and colleagues

Thu 15^th Feb 2018

What Really Happened in Y2K
A written version of this talk is available here Martyn Thomas

Thu 18^th Jan 2018

Re-Imagining the PDP8 Oscar Vermuelen

Thu 14^th Dec 2017

Computer Films Kevin Murrell & Dan Hayton

Thu 16^th Nov 2017

Emulation Peter Onion

Thu 26^th Oct 2017

AGM at 14:00 +
Bottlenecks and Breakthroughs, a 40 year journey in IT David Morriss

Thu 21^st Sep 2017

Software as Heritage and Strategies for its Preservation — and what Computer Sounds have to do with it Gerard Alberts

Tue 20^th Mar 2018

Restoring the 2966 Delwyn Holroyd

Tue 20^th Feb 2018

EMIDEC and its Software Dave Parsons

Tue 16^th Jan 2018

KDF8 a Retrospective Neil Macphail

Tue 28^th Nov 2017

The Call to ARMs
This was a joint meeting with the Newcomen Society at the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI). Steve Furber

Tue 17^th Oct 2017

The ICT 1300 Series - From Tabulator to Timeshare Rod Brown

Tue 19^th Sep 2017

Crises & Lessons from the History of Software Martyn Thomas [Praxis]

Mon 22^nd – Tue 23^rd May 2017

Making IT Work A two day conference at BCS London and TNMoC Bletchley &

Thu 18^th May 2017

The Joe Lyons Story – Food for Thought Neville Lyons

Thu 20^th Apr 2017

Computing in Air Traffic Management: (Mostly) Past, (Some) Present and (A Little Bit of) Future

Ben Trethowan

Thu 16^th Mar 2017

Babbage and Lovelace Sydney Padua

Thu 16^th Feb 2017

Simulation Models of Historical Computers - Atlas, MU5 and CDC 6600 Roland Ibbett

Thu 19^th Jan 2017

History of Enterprise Systems Geoff Sharman

Thu 15^th Dec 2016

Computer Films Dan Hayton & Kevin Murrell

Thu 17^th Nov 2016

Sale Award Ceremony + Presentation from the Winner

Mon 17^th Oct 2016

Marian Rejewski’s Cyklometr Jerry McCarthy

Thu 22^nd Sep 2016

Crises and Lessons from the History of Software. Martyn Thomas

Tue 21^st Mar 2017

The History of ENIAC in three Programs Mark Priestly

Tue 21^st Feb 2017

The History of the Semiconductor Revolution David Eglin

Tue 17^th Jan 2017

A Search Through the Bins of Computer History
a.k.a. Proposed Computers: Several Design Projects that never left the Drawing Board David Eglin

Tue 15^th Nov 2016

The Unknown Alan Turing John Dermot Turing

Tue 18^th Oct 2016

Birth and Death of the Basic Language Machine. John Iliffe

Tue 20^th Sep 2016

Simulation Models of Historical Computers - Atlas, MU5 and CDC 6600 Roland Ibbett

Wed 11^th May 2016

The History of ENIAC in three Programs Mark Priestley

Wed 27^th Apr 2016

The HEC1 Story Kevin Murrell, Delwyn Holroyd and Roger Johnson

Thu 17^th Mar 2016

A Search Through the Bins of Computer History David Eglin

Thu 18^th Feb 2016

Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace: Two Visions of Computing, or, Ada Lovelace, why the fuss? Doron Swade

Thu 21^st Jan 2016

The Unknown Alan Turing Sir John Dermot Turing

Thu 17^th Dec 2015

Computer Films Dan Hayton & Terry Froggatt

Thu 19^th Nov 2015

The History of Primary Care Computing Primary Health Specialist Group

Thu 22^nd Oct 2015

AGM at 14:00 + Understanding Colossus Chris Shore

Thu 17^th Sep 2015
Mechanisation of Calculation Prof. Guyot

Tue 15^th Mar 2016
The Battle of Britain’s Home Computers Gareth Halfacree

Tue 16^th Feb 2016
Structured Software and the Break with Electrical Engineers David Grier

Tue 19^th Jan 2016
A Short History of Information Security Technologies Mike Small

Tue 17^th Nov 2015
Evolution of Microcode Development John Eaton

Tue 20^th Oct 2015
A Short History of Computing at the Met Office Chris Little

Tue 22^nd Sep 2015
Satellite Navigation Technology Air Commodore Norman Bonnor

This was a joint meeting with the Newcomen Society

Thu 21^th May 2015
Andrew Booth: Britain’s Other Fourth Man Roger Johnson

Thu 16^th Apr 2015
Materialisations of Logic Machines Rainer Glaschick

Thu 19^th Mar 2015
The Battle of Britain’s Home Computers Gareth Halfacree

Thu 19^th Feb 2015
A Short History of Computing at the Met Office Chris Little

Thu 15^th Jan 2015
The ICL 2903 Development Story John Harper

Thu 18^th Dec 2014
Historic Computer Films CCS Panel

Thu 20^th Nov 2014
The Three Rs of Software Preservation: Rescue, Retention and Relevance David Holdsworth

Thu 6^th Nov 2014
Tony Sale Award Presentation

The presentation is at 18:30. A buffet reception follows at 19:30.

Thu 16^th Oct 2014
Annual General Meeting at 14:00 followed by

Computer Conservation and Museums: Fight or Flight? Doron Swade

Fri 26^th Sep 2014
A repeat of last year's all day visit to the museum at IBM Hursley Park —

IBM Hursley Park Introduction to the Museum Peter Short

The Years at Hursley Park David Key

Tour of Hursley House and grounds

Fri 19^th- Sun 21^st Sep 2014
Visit to Heinz Nixdorf Museum Organised by Roger Johnson

Paderborn, Germany

Thu 11^th Sep 2014
The Origins of the ICT 1900 Series (1961-64). Alan Thomson and John Buckle

Tue 17^th Mar 2015
The Antikythera Mechanism Tony Freeth

Tue 17^th Feb 2015
History & Development of Medical Imaging Tim Ritchings

Tue 20^th Jan 2015 18:00
"Radar" of the First World War: B-stations and wireless direction-finding in WW1 Elizabeth Bruton

Tue 18^th Nov 2014
History & Development of the Internet Nigel Linge

Tue 21^st Oct 2014
The Three Rs of Software Preservation: Rescue, Retention and Relevance David Holdsworth

Tue 16^th Sep 2014
The EDSAC Replica Andrew Herbert

Thu 15^st May 2014
Computing Before Computers - From Counting Board to Slide Rule David Eglin no alt

Thu 10^th Apr 2014
The History of Computing in Colour Martin Campbell-Kelly no alt

Thu 13^st Mar 2014
Structured Software and the Break with Electrical Engineers David Grier no alt

Thu 20^th Feb 2014
The EDSAC Replica Andrew Herbert no alt

Thu 16^st Jan 2014
The Harwell Dekatron Kevin Murrell no alt

Thu 12^th Dec 2013
The Antikythera Mechanism Tony Freeth no alt

Thu 21^st Nov 2013
Which came first - the Code or the Computer? Jochen Viehoff no alt

Thu 17^th Oct 2013
CCS Annual General Meeting 2013

then Ada Lovelace James Essinger no alt

Fri 27^th Sep 2013
All day visit to IBM Hursley Park including:
100 Years of IBM
The Years at Hursley Park
Visit to the IBM Museum
Tour of Hursley House and grounds Terry Muldoon & David Key

Tue 18^th Mar 2014
Babbage‘s Analytical Engine Doron Swade

Tue 18^th Feb 2014
Tales of the Unexpected: An alternative history of the Computing Industry. Bill Thompson

Tue 21^st Jan 2014
The CDC 6600 Computer Dik Leatherdale

Tue 19^th Nov 2013
Misplaced Ingenuity; some dead ends in Computer History. Hamish Carmichael

Tue 15^th Oct 2013
Enigma the untold Story: the intelligence chase for V1,V2 and V3.
[Joint meeting with the Newcomen Society] Phil Judkins

Tue 17^th Sep 2013
Early Use of PCs for Business Purposes and Maintaining them 25 Years on Lee Griffiths, Salford University

Thu 16^th May 2013
Babbage’s Analytical Engine Doron Swade no alt

Thu 18^th Apr 2013
CAP - The Last Cambridge Computer Andrew Herbert no alt

Thu 21^st Mar 2013
The Atlas Story: 1956 to 1976 Simon Lavington no alt

Thu 21^st Feb 2013
A History of Information Retrieval Keith van Rijsbergen no alt

Thu 17^th Jan 2013
The Bracknell Ferranti Computers Peter Niblett no alt

Thu 13^th Dec 2012
Historic Computer Films Kevin Murrell, Dan Hayton & Roger Johnson

Thu 15^th Nov 2012
History of Machine Translation John Hutchins no alt

Thu 18^th Oct 2012
CCS Annual General Meeting 2012

Followed by ...

Conserving the Past for the Future - Data, Websites and Software Tim Gollins, Jeremy Leighton John & David Holdsworth no alt

Thu 20^th Sep 2012
Adapting and Innovating: The Development of IT Law Rachel Burnett no alt

Tue 18^th Sep 2012
Centering the Computer in the Business of Banking: Barclays Bank and Technological Change, 1954–1974 Ian Martin & David Parsons

Tue 16^th Oct 2012 14:30
Manchester´s Telecoms Firsts Nigel Linge & Pauline Webb

Tue 20^th Nov 2012
Advances Made by the Manchester Atlas Project Dai Edwards

Tue 15^th Jan 2013
Andrew Booth - Britain´s Other Fourth Man Roger Johnson

Tue 26^th Feb 2013
The Incredible Shrinking Bit - Challenges in Computer Memory Over the Last 60 Years and Beyond Steve Hill

Tue 19^th Mar 2013
Computing Before Computers - From Counting Board to Slide Rule David Eglin

Thu 17^th May 2012
Alan Turing - Computer Designer Brian Carpenter

Thu 19^th Apr 2012
Centring the Computer in the Business of Banking: Barclays Bank and Technological Change, 1954-1974. Ian Martin & David Parsons

Thu 15^th Mar 2012
Turing and his Contemporaries Simon Lavington and Others

Thu 16^th Feb 2012
Bloodhound on my trail: building the Ferranti Argus process control computer. Jonathan Aylen

Thu 19^th Jan 2012
Misplaced Ingenuity, some dead ends in Computer History Hamish Carmichael

Thu 17^th Nov 2011
The Emergence of Computer Science in France Pierre Mounier-Kuhn

Thu 15^th Dec 2011
Historic Computer Films CCS Panel

Thu 20^th Oct 2011
CCS Annual General Meeting 2011

A Tribute to Sir Maurice Wilkes David Hartley and others

Thu 15^th Sep 2011 14:30
Event Postponed
Was to be: Centering the computer in the business of banking: Barclays 1954-1974. The reason is to respect one of the founders of the CCS - Tony Sale - see CCS news item. The funeral is on that day.

Tue 20^th Mar 2012
EDSAC Replica Project Chris Burton

Tue 21^st Feb 2012
Hartree's Differential Analyser Charles Lindsey

Tue 17^th Jan 2012
Historic Computer Films Chris Burton and Kevin Murrell

Tue 15^th Nov 2011
The Development of Robotics John Gray

Tue 18^th Oct 2011
Early Silicon Compilers John Vernon

Tue 20^th Sep 2011
System Architecture John Eaton and Roger Poole

17^th Jul 2011 14:30
1301 Open day

Thu 19^th May 2011 14:30
EARLY COMPUTERS IN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL John Smith, Neville Evans, and Ben Trethowan

Thu 21^st Apr 2011 14:30
The story of Elliott-Automation Computers, 1946 - 1986 Simon Lavington

Thu 17^th Mar 2011 14:30
Earthquake or Explosion - Computers in Seismology applied to Test-Ban Verification. Alan Douglas

Thu 17^th Feb 2011 14:30
The Evolution of Hard Disk Drives Neil McPhail

Thu 20^th Jan 2011 14:30
Homo sapiens, cultural evolution and computing - a perspective. George Mallen

Thu 16^th Dec 2010 14:30
Historic Computer Films Panel of CCS Speakers

Thu 18^th Nov 2010 14:30
Konrad Zuse and the Origins of The Computer Horst Zuse

Thu 28^th Oct 2010 14:00
CCS Annual General Meeting

Tales of the Unexpected: an alternative history of the computing industry John Naughton and Bill Thompson

Thu 16^th Sep 2010 14:30

Research Machines John Leighfield

Tue 15^th Mar 2011 17:30

The Evolution of Radar Systems Frank Barker

Tue 15^th Feb 2011 17:30

Is it 1 or 0: A look at past and future methods for physical data storage. Steve Hill

Tue 18^th Jan 2011 17:30

The Harwell Dekatron Computer Kevin Murrell and Tony Frazer

Tue 16^th Nov 2010 17:30

The LEO Story Gordon Foulger

Tue 26^th Oct 2010 18:30

Ferranti Argus: Bloodhound on my trail: open innovation in a closed World
This was a joint meeting with the Newcomen Society and the IET. Jonathan Aylen

26^th May 2010, Wolverhampton

The Harwell Dekatron Computer Kevin Murrell

20^th May 2010

Pegasus @ 50 Panel of Speakers from the CCS

15^th Apr 2010

Software developments at Hursley Geoffrey Sharman and Andy Krasun

18^th Mar 2010

The Harwell Dekatron Computer Kevin Murrell and Tony Frazer

18^th Feb 2010

The CDC 6600 Computer Dik Leatherdale and John Fernbank

14^th Jan 2010

50 Years of Advanced Programming: An anniversary seminar on Algol 60 Panel of speakers from the BCS Advanced Programming Group and the CCS

17^th Dec 2009

Historic Computer Films CCS Panel of Speakers

15^th Oct 2009

CCS EGM

15^th Oct 2009

The ICT 1301 Computer Rod Brown

22^nd Sep 2009, Edinburgh

JANET - The first 25 years Bob Day, Roland Rosner & Shirley Wood

17^th Sep 2009

The History of Communications David Parsons

12^th May 2010, Edinburgh

An Overview of some CCS projects Chris Burton

16^th Feb

An overview of some CCS projects Chris Burton

17^th Nov 2009

The Sierra Leone National Railway Steve Davies MBE. Directoru of the Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI)

4^th Nov 2009, York

Computer Gems Jim Austin

20^th Oct 2009

The Evolution of Hard Disk Drives Neil McPhail

15^th Sep 2009

Iconic Machines: Exhibiting a history of Computing Doron Swade

14^th May 2009

The BBC Domesday Book Project and its Legacy George Auckland, Peter Armstrong, Andy Finney, and David Holdsworth no alt

23^rd Apr 2009

JANET - The first 25 years Bob Day, Tim Marshall, Roland Rosner, and Shirley Wood

12^th Mar 2009

The Archaeology of Very Early Algorithms, 1948-58. Christopher Strachey's Love Letter Generator David Link

19^th Feb 2009

Seminar on EMI Computers - A Reminder Keith Crook, Michael Knight, David Robinson, and Alan Thomson

15^th Jan 2009

The ICL - Fujitsu Technology Collaboration Tom Hinchliffe and John Vernon

13^th Nov 2008 Iconic Machines: Exhibiting a History of Computing Doron Swade

16^th Oct 2008

A Life with Databases Charles Bachman

11^th Sep 2008

The Legacy of LEO in Business Applications - a tribute to David Caminer Peter Hermon, Frank Land, Mike Forrest, Hilary Caminer, Georgina Ferry, Ninian Eadie, Gilbert Foix, John Aris, David Harvey

17^th Mar 2009

NW Group visit to Jodrell Bank Visit includes talk Professor Ian Morrison and starts 2.00pm till 5.00pm.

17^th Feb 2009

Computers in Telephony David Parsons and Nigel Linge

20^th Jan 2009

Some CAFS Applications Hamish Carmichael and Martin Wright

18^th Nov 2008

Elliott's Contribution to Computers Lawrence Clarke

21^st Oct 2008 Computing before Computers Jane Wess

16^th Sep 2008

The BBC Micro and its legacy Dave Allen, George Auckland, and I McNaught Davis

15^th May 2008

Early days of Programming at Elliotts Sir Tony Hoare, Jill Hoare, Jeff Hillmore and others

17^th Apr 2008
The NAG Library - The Continuing Story Brian Ford and Steve Hague

20^th Mar 2008 A Special CCS Seminar on the BBC Micro and its Legacy John Radcliffe, Steve Furber, George Auckland, Mike Bostock and others

21^st Feb 2008
BEACON Transaction Processing System -
a design ahead of its time? Michael Knight

17^th Jan 2008 Computers in Publishing - 40 eventful years David Brailsford, David Penfold and Conrad Taylor

18^th Oct 2007 Some CAFS applications Hamish Carmichael & Martin Wright <

20^th Sep 2007 Titan: The Poor Man's ATLAS? David Hartley

18^th Mar 2008
The I.C.L. Fujitsu Technology Collaboration Tom Hinchliffe and John Vernon

12^th Feb 2008 Development of the Metrovick 950 and 1010 Ron Foulkes

20^th Nov 2007
Articifical Intelligence Max Bramer

16^th Oct 2007 The English Electric Deuce Mike Wetherfield

12-14^th Jul 2007 BCS 50^th Anniversary Conference at Bletchley Park (12^th Jul) and the BCS Offices at Southampton Street (13-14^th Jul) Simon Lavington, Maurice Wilkes & others

15^th Feb 2007 Elliott Digital Computers, 1947-1967 Simon Lavington

25^th Jan 2007 50 Years of Fortran Various Speakers

07^th Dec 2006 How Have Learning and Computing Connected? The National Archive of Education and Computing Richard Millwood

09^th Nov 2006 Use of an ICT 1201 for Production Control Hamish Carmichael

26^th Oct 2006 The First 25 Years of Hursley Software Advanced Programming Specialist Group

20^thd Mar 2007 Unseen Museum Artefacts Jenny Wetton

20^th Feb 2007 Elliott Digital Computers 1947-67 Simon Lavington

16^th Jan 2007 System 4 to New Range Architecture Peter Wharton

04^th May 2006 My Mis-spent Youth Iain Barron

29^th Apr 2006 Best Practices in Computer Conservation Various Speakers

09^th Mar 2006 A Bletchley Park Update Tony Sale

19^th Jan 2006 Ten Landmarks in Information Systems Bill Olle

08^th Dec 2005 History of Computing in France Hans Pufal & Philippe Denoyelle

03^rd Nov 2005 The Origins of Artificial Intellegence Max Bramer

06^th Oct 2005 Development of the VDU Ian McArthur

21^st Mar 2006 Digital Circuit Design Styles Chris Burton & John Vernon

12^th May 2005 Computing Before Computers Doron Swade & others

24^th Mar 2005 Making the Profession Peter Barnes & six other speakers

24^th Feb 2005 Some Early Applications (Lyons and LEO) Hugh McGregor-Ross, Janet Delve, Frank Land

20^th Jan 2005 Government IT Policy to 1990 Brian Oakley, Peter Hall, Reay Atkinson, Paul Gannon

02^nd Dec 2004 Program Verification and Semantics - Further Work Cliff Jones

28^th Oct 2004 The Long Shadow of Colossus & Turing’s Legacy David Anderson & Jack Copeland

23^th Sep 2004 An Afternoon of Audio-Visual Entertainment Chris Burton

None

13^th May 2004 The History of Health Computing in the UK Prof. Bernard Richards

25^th Mar 2004 Computers in Art Robin Shirley et al

26^th Feb 2004 Pioneers of Payroll on Computers John Aris

22^nd Jan 2004 Twenty Years of the Apple Mac – or What the PC should really have been like Various speakers

20^th Nov 2003 The Shocking Truth about Charles Babbage and his Calculating Engines Doron Swade

29^th Oct 2003 The Ferranti Orion Computer Frank Taylor, Ted Braunholz, Malcolm Bigg, Mark Roach, Gordon Harvey

23^rd Mar 2004 Use of Computers in TV David Lyon

24^th Feb 2004 History of Communications John Vernon

27^nd Jan 2004 Software and User Experience of Orion 1 Unknown

25^th Nov 2003 Other Machines at Bletchley Park Tony Sale & Brian Oakley

21^st Oct 2003 Computers at Jodrell Bank Dr I. Morrison

23^rd Sep 2003 Audio/Video evening – will include footage of SSEM rebuild and of Pegasus Unknown

29^th May 2003 Our Computer Heritage Simon Lavington

20^th Feb 2003 Charles Babbage Doron Swade

17^th Dec 2002 Early Statistical Applications Gavin Ross

20^th Nov 2002 Early Pattern Recognition Prof. Igor Aleksander

11^th Oct 2002 Early Manchine Intellegence 4 speakers

10^th Sep 2002 On the Bombe Rebuild (at Bletchley park) with demonstration and tour Unknown

21^st Jan 2003 From Operating Systems to Windows Brian Warboys

19^th Nov 2002 Early Use of Computers in the Chesire Building Society John Williams

22^nd Oct 2002 Computer Mapping Techniques Dr J. Barr

24^th Sep 2002 From Valves to VLSI John Vernon

23^rd May 2002 Beyond Collossus Brian Oakley & Tony Sale

20^th-21^st Apr 2002 Turing Bombe Rebuild Demonstration

17^th Nov 2001 Great Computer Myths J.A.N. Lee

05^th Nov 2001 Early Computers in Banking

02^nd Oct 2001 Early Computers in Insurance

19^th Mar 2002 The Turing Bombe Rebuild Project John Harper

12^th Feb 2002 The RM Machine John Leighfield

22^nd Jan 2002 Altair and After : The Original Personal Computer Revolution Robin Shirley

27^th Nov 2001 Ferranti Orion 1: An Introductory Overview Chris Burton

07^th Jun 2001 Program Verification & Semantics Tony Hoare

17^th May 2001 Pegasus Open Day Sir John Fairclough, Simon Lavington, Hugh Devonald, George Felton, Donald S. Davis, Judith Milledge, Chris Burton & Peter Hall

27^th Apr 2001 The ICT 1301 Computer Frank Townsend and others

11^th Dec 2000 Punched Card Calulators etc. Hamish Carmichael and four others

22^nd Nov 2000 Keeping Historic Software Forever David Holdsworth

24^th Oct 2000 The Pegasus Computer Bureau 5 speakers

20^th Feb 2001 Weather Forecasting F Bushby

23^rd Jan 2001 Early Design Automation G Adshead & C Lindsey

28^th Nov 2000 Do Fish See in Colour (a talk on electronic publishing) D Griffiths

24^th Oct 2000 The Use of the Ferranti Mark 1* in Aircraft Design R Lane & H Malbon & P Morton

18^th May 2000 ACE 2000 Jack Copeland

20^th Apr 2000 The ICT 1301 Computer 5 speakers

02^nd Mar 2000 The Doomsday Project Stephen Heppell, George Aukland & Chris Warren

16^th Dec 1999 Two Early Computers Prof. M. Leman

18^th Nov 1999 Visible Record Computers Tony Sale

13^th Oct 1999 Punched Card Machines Hamish Carmichael + 3 others

24^th Jun 1999 Bletchley Experiences Donald Michie

10^th May 1999 Cambridge Computer Laboratory M.V. Wilkes, D. Hartley, A Hopper, R. Needham (video)

20^th Feb 1999 The Distributed Array processor Dennis Parkinson

19^th Nov 1998 The TRANSPUTER Iain Barron

15^th Oct 1998 Acorn Computers and the BBC Micro Hermann Hauser

23^rd Mar 1999 The Transputer Iain Barron

23^rd Feb 1999 Computers on Display (a behind the scenes look at developing an exhibition) Unknown

26^th Jan 1999 The Leo Computer John Aris & George Manley

24^th Nov 1998 The Distributed Array Processor probably Dennis Parkinson

20^th Oct 1998 From Freelance Programmers to FI PLC probably Steve Shirley

29^th Sep 1998 The Early Days of the NCC Ron McQuaker

30^th Apr 1998 History of Uk Academic Computing Bob Cooper & Peter Kerstein

12^th Mar 1998 the History of Packet Switching Donald Davies & ???

04^th Dec 1997 History of the National Computing Centre John Aris et al

06^th Nov 1997 Early History of the UK Software Industry Barney Gibbens et al

16^th Oct 1997 From Freelance Programmers to FI Steve Shirley

24^th May 1998 Computing in Russia Doron Swade

109^th Feb 1998 The Argus Computer and process Control M. Gribble

4^th Nov 1997 The Development of Computer Gtraphics R. Hubble

30^th Sep 1997 Unicom – Unilever’s Pioneering Word Processing System Peter Hall

28^th May 1997 Human Factors in Computing Brian Shakel

09^th Apr 1997 ICL an Anecdotal Overview Hamish Carmichael

09^th Apr 1997 Methods of Construction from Early Radio to Modern Computers John Pinkerton

27^th Mar 1997 The First Manchester Computer – its History and Rebuild and ..... Chris Burton & Geoff Toothill

20^th Feb 1997 Computer Technology and the ..... Iain Barron

31^st Oct 1996 The Collossus Codebreaker and its .... Tony Sale

?^rd Apr 1997 ICT/ICL 1900 Series Unknown

4^rd Feb 1997 The Colossus Code-Breaker and the Collossus Rebuild Tony Sale

26^th Nov 1996 The use of Comp;uters in the Fifties and Sixties Unknown

1^st Oct 1996 The KDF9 Computer 50 Years On Bob Beard

30^th May 1996 The ICT/ICL 1900 Range 11 Speakers - Devonald, Eldridge. Humphries ....

16^th May 1996 The Dawn of Chinese Computing Prof. Quaingnang Sun

13^th Mar 1996 The Ferranti/ICT Atlas Computer Three Speakers

21^st Nov 1995 The Development of IBM Chris Hipwell (chair) and many others

11^th Oct 1995 The ZEBRA Computer Hunter, Judd, van der Poel

21^st May 1996 The Small Scale Experimental Machine Rebuilt Chris Burton

23^rd Apr 1996 Industrial Research in the Information Technology Field Gordon Scarrot

6^th Feb 1996 The Origin and Development of Database Software Prof. Peter King

28^th Nov 1995 Computing at Rolls Royce in the Fifties and Sixties Leonard Griffiths

17^th Oct 1995 Getting Atlas of the Ground Jack Howlett & Alan Bagshaw

20^th May 1995 Deuce at NPL Donald Davies & George Davis

22^nd Mar 1995 Industrial Research at ISE Gordon Scarrott

24^th Feb 1995 The LEO Computers Story Frank Land, John Aris & Others

25^th Apr 1995 Computer Maintenance in the Fifties T. R. Duffy

7^th Feb 1995 The Digital Computer Deuce – some reminiscences Jeremy Walker

?? ??? 1994 Memories ???? ????

13^th Dec 1994 The Tranition from Valves to Solid State Machines Dick Grimsdale

24^th Feb 1994 The British Computer Industry - Why was the Early Promise not fulfilled? Debate

2^nd Dec 1993 Stantec Zebra Unknown

11^th Nov 1993 CP/M unknown

30^th Sep 1993 Russian Computing Doron Swade

12^th Jun 1994 How on Earth Did we Ever Manage to Make the hardware Usable David Howarth

24^th Jun 1993 Seminar on Conservation and Restoration of Historic Computers unknown

17^th Jun 1993 The Coming of Mix and match Robin Shirley

20^th May 1993 Early NPL and English Electric Davies, Newman, Osborne & others

22^nd Apr 1993 Elliott 401 Anniversary

25^th Mar 1993 George Alfred Julius and his ... Charles Norrie

28^th Jan 1993 ICL CAFS Vic Maller

16^th Dec 1992 30 Years of Databases Peter King

29^th Oct 1992 The Enigma of Bletchley Park Tony Sale

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25^th Jun 1992 Seminar/Workshop Doron Swade & Tony Sale

21^th May 1992 Elliotts and Pegasus Clarke, Merry, Crawley & others

30^nd Apr 1992 The Origins of Packet Switching Derek Barber

27^th Feb 1992 Altair and After - The Original PC Robin Shirley

23^th Jan 1992 The Williams Tube Revisited Tony Sale

28^th Nov 1991 Andrew Booth’s Computers at.... Andrew Colin

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27^th Jun 1991 Emulating Early Machines

23^th May 1991 Manchester Computers 1948-1981 8 Speakers

25^th Mar 1991 DEC Computers Adrian Johnstone

28^th Feb 1991 A.D. Blumlein Ted Newman

24^th Jan 1991 The Orion Operating System George Felton

15^th Nov 1990 Algol 30 Years on 5 speakers

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24^th May 1990 Design Decisions on Early ..... 5 speakers

22^nd Feb 1990 ICL and the British Computer Industry Martin Campbell-Kelly

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Other Videos

In this section are some CCS videos which are not related to lectures but which document Society actiovities over the years.

Date Event Title Speaker(s)

Not known Powering up the Elliott 401 Drum Chris Burton and others

Not known Running the PDP12 at the Science Museum

Not known In Steam Days

Not known Haiingay Stadium Totaliser – Film Rushes

Not known Wireless World Computer

Not known DEC WP – PDP11/70 – TNMOC DEC Team

Not known April 2017 CCS Visit to Deutsches Museum, Munich

The Society is in the process of publishing recordings of other early lectures which require transcription from early formats. This may take some time.