Ferranti Mercury

[Tom Jennings]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:

> > http://wps.com/archives/Ivall/Ferranti-Mercury-computer.jpg
> 
> That's the same pic everyone seems to have :)  
> You've got some interesting other stuff on there, though.

They're all from a book that's reasonably available:

Computer Design and Hardware	Electronic Computers, Principles and Applications	T.E. Ivall	1960	Iliffe and Sons	Overview, history, direction, pictures, for tech audience, analog, digital state of the art

Hmm, paste from OOo, ugly, data there. Try abebooks.com

Mostly English machines, obviously. My next concentration...

> I know we've got various Pegasus, Deuce and Leo documentation at the
> museum, but I've not seen anything of the Mercury so it's something of
> an unknown to me!