VVP Issue 4.2 - 20/06/2006
No list
of customers or other related material has been found so far in the
Because
of the absence of publicly available documentation, the initials of the
contributor(s) to each entry in the list have been recorded in the “Remarks”
section.
Contributors:
• Barry Baker (BB)
• Ray Bradwell (RB)
• John C Brannan (JCBr)
• John Buckle (JKB)
• Chris Burton (CPB)
• Malcom Butler (MB)
• John Chapman (JC)
• Keith Crook (KC)
• Robert Dees (RD)
• Julia Dickinson (JD)
• Brian Ecclestone (BE)
• Richard de Fraine (RdF)
• Les Fairbrother (LF)
• Brian Ferres (BF)
• Mike Forrest (MLNF)
• Phil Gardner (PG)
• Alan Gillman (AG)
• Timothy Goldingham (TG)
• Chris Hankin (CH)
• Trevor Harding (TH)
• John Harper (JH)
• Vic Hopkins (VH)
• Ken James (KJ)
• Simon Lavington (SL)
• Peter Lord (PAL)
•
• Jeff Outram (JO)
• Virgilio Pasquali (VVP)
• Tim Patterson (TP)
• Peter Perschky (PEP)
• Peter Seaward (PS)
• Adrian Turner (AT)
• John Thompson (JET)
• Arthur Ward (AW)
• Mike Wilson (MW)
• Frank A Worsfold (FAW)
N.B.2- A number of FP6000 were delivered by Ferranti-Packard
before the ICT 1900 range became available (JC). Although not, stricly
speaking, 1900 systems, the list is included for completeness:
N.B.3- 2901’s were also made by ICT
Location Leek, Staffs
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business: Butter suppliers
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location Edgbaston, Birmingham
Date:
System: 1903
Customer’s business: Computer Services Bureau
Applications: Wages etc.
Remarks (BE)
Location Portland
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(FAW)
Location Peckham
Date:
System: 1902
Customer’s business:
Applications: Membership Records
Remarks
(PEP)
Location Rothampstead
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(MLNF) (JKB) (Also had a EE 4-70)
(TP)
Location:
Boscombe Down
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks:
(FAW)
Location Wandsworth
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Applications: Accounts/Invoicing
Remarks
(PEP)
Remarks
Alfred Holt was the original shipping company (known as Blue
Funnel to many), and Ocean was the
group name –
(CH)
Location Weybridge
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(PEP)
Location
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (AW)
Location
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (FAW)
Location:
Date: 1966
System: 1903 with 5 Magnetic Tapes
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
The membership records took three or four
hours to be updated and if there was an error during the run, it had to be
restarted since
the program had no restart points (JET)
Location Wiltshire
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(FAW)
Location
Date:
System: “A number of 1900’s”
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (AT)
Location: West Indies
Date: 1970/71
System:
1901
Customer’s business:
Applications: Customer billing
Remarks
(WJM)
Location: West Indies
Date: 1970/71
System:
1901
Customer’s business:
Applications: General accounting
Remarks
(WJM)
Location: West Indies
Date: 1970/71
System:
1902A
Customer’s business:
Applications: Customer accounting
Remarks (WJM)
Location Birmingham, Forest Gate and Feltham (part of ICL)
Date:
System: 1903
Customer’s business: Computer Services Co.
Applications:
Wages etc.
Remarks
(BE) (FAW)
Location Liverpool
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
the classic - salesman sold a 4k 1901 with
a card reader and a printer. When confronted with the question of how do you
output the semi-compiled program before consolidation the answer was you print
it and punch out the cards by hand.We gave them a card punch and upgrade to 8k
to make it work at all. (CH)
Location:
Sheffield
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s
business: Confectionary Mfg.
Applications:
Remarks:
(VH)
Location Preston
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business: Baxi boilers
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location
Date:
System: 1904
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Publications
Remarks
(PEP)
Location
Date:
System: 1905?
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(MLNF) (JKB)
Location Liverpool
Date:
System:
1901A
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(CH)
Location Liverpool - Multiple sites
Date:
System: 1903 to replace LEOIII (my project), then 1904 - (1903 moved to Leigh), added 1907 or 1909 for scientific work (whichever it was, the other was sold to Pilkingtons - I just can't remember which was which). I lost touch after 1971 (CH)
Customer’s business: Cable Manufacturers
Applications:
Remarks
(CH)(JD)
Location Wrexham
Date:
System: 1901A
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(CH)
Location Helsby
Date:
System: I only came in later on this site (it wasn't in our territory for some reason) - by which time they had a 2903 (CH)
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(CH)
Location Birkenhead
Date:
System: 1902
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(CH)
Location: Birmingham Newhall St.
Date: 1965
System: 1904 (FP6000). First in Midlands
Customer’s business: Local Government Dept
Applications: Payroll
Remarks (Burroughs Tape Decks + Anelex Printers +Paper Tape in/out) (BE)
Location Weybridge
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
This
was one of the earliest users of screen 1900 for CAD/CAM in the
Location Edgbaston Birmingham
Date:
System: 1903
Customer’s business: Insurance Sales
Applications:
Wages
Remarks (BE)
Location Manchester
Date:
System: 1902
Customer’s business: Debt collectors
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location Solihull, Birmingham
Date: c. 1966
System: 1905 (later 1904E)
Customer’s business: Gas Supply Co.
Applications:
Gas Billing and receipt tracking
Remarks (BE) (PEP)
Location Leicester
Date:
System: 1903
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (AW)
Location Peterborough
Date:
System: 1904
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (AW)
Location Leicester
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (AW)
Location London (Battersea and Putney)
Date:
System: 1904
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(BF)(FAW)
Location:
Date:
System: Many 1900's
Customer’s business: Steel Producer
Applications: Payroll, PERT, Scheduling, Accounting
Remarks
I think they just did payroll and PERT and scheduling and
accounting. Really, that's what most of the 1900s did simply because there was
no real-time facility to use them in things like process control or anything
where a sort of VME/K reaction was needed.(KC)
Location:
Sheffield
Date:
System: 1902
Customer’s
business: Steel Mfg.
Applications:
Remarks:
(VH)
Location: Wallsend
Date:
System: 1903 then a 1903A
Customer’s
business:
Applications:
Research
Remarks: In a building which was originally used for
ship fabrication, an office unit being built inside a very large shed. The system was for research only. Attached
to the computer was a large flatbed plotter, it dwarfed the whole of the
computer system. The installation of the plotter was rather novel in that the
original shed crane system was used to lower the plotter through the office
roof. (RB)
Location:
Date:
System: 1904
Customer’s
business:
Applications:
Remarks:
(BB)
Location
Date:
System:
1905
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(MLNF) (JKB)(TP)
Location Hinkley
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (AW)
Location Leeds
Date:
System:
Customer’s business: Gents Outfitters
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location: Leicester
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(AW)
Location
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(FAW)
Location: Bournville, Birmingham
Date:
System:
1905.
Customer’s business:
Chocolate production
Applications: Wages etc.
Remarks
(BE)
Location: Eastbourne
Date:
System:
1900 User in the 1960s and 70s before
moving on to 2904.
Customer’s business:
Car Retailer
Applications: Primary usage was Payroll, Stores and Sales Management.
Remarks Originally a Jaguar and British Leyland supplier they now manage a wide
range of franchises (PG)
Location Manchester
Date:
System:
1904
Customer’s business: Printers and Dyers
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location Birkenhead
Date:
System:
1902
Customer’s business: Ship Builders
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location Warrington
Date:
System:
1901A
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(CH)
Location Manchester
Date:
System:
1902
Customer’s business: Battery Manufacturers
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location: UK
Date:
1960’s
System:
1901
Customer’s business:
Applications: Estate Management and clergy stipend payments
Remarks
Strange
payroll (WJM)
Location: China
Date:
System: 2 1903's
Customer’s business: ??
Applications:
Remarks: We sent two
1903s to somewhere in (red) CHINA for which we had to make special consoles
with typewriters on. The Teletype would have looked too American and we would
fall foul of COCOM (KC)
Location London
Date:
System:
1904A
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(PEP)
Location London
Date:
System: 1904
Customer’s business:
Applications: Accounts
Remarks
(PEP)
Location:
Date:
System: 1902?
Customer’s business: Threads Manufacturer
Applications:
Remarks
(MLNF) (FAW)
Location: Charleroi in Belgium
Date:
System: 1903
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(AT)
Location
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(FAW)
Location Stretford, Manchester
Date:
System: 1902
Customer’s business: Computer bureau
Applications:
Remarks (JD)
Location Throughout UK
Date:
System:
Customer’s
business:
Food and non-food retailers
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location:
France (Including Lille, Saintes, Manosque)
Date:
System: 1904,5,4F,6's
Customer’s business: Banking
Applications:
Remarks (Said to have been the world's largest bank at the time). Had 1900’s at many of their "Caisses Regionals" - mostly 1904/5/4F/06 (MLNF)
Famous rescue of a customer – Credit Agricole at
Saintes, which suffered a disastrous flood and replacement machine(s) delivered
in a matter of days. (See also Plessey for the other famous rescue). (MLNF)
Location Manchester
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business: Soap etc manufacturer
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location: Manchester Birtley
Date:
System: 1904, 1903A
Customer’s business: Wholesaler for Co-ops
Applications:
Remarks: A very special feature for this 3A was the
Priority Interrupt Feature, which enable customer software to operate in
Executive Mode. This was to allow control of a rather unique peripheral.
The special ( only one ever made) was a warehouse
control unit, which totally controlled the picking of CWS food supplies from
the custom built racking system an loaded in large mobile trolleys for despatch
to CWS retail shops. The controller was designed and built in Crawley (can’t
remember name of company) where I spent some time with the 3A during
development. ICL took on the servicing of the unit.
The warehouse was designed to supply the smaller CWS
stores and with the introduction of supermarkets it became redundant. Due to
the design of the racking system which supported the rest of the building, the
building could not be used for any other purpose and was demolished. (RB)
What a
store needed one day was delivered the next day. I think the 1903A actually
drove some sort of pecking mechanism that shoved things off shelves into a
trolley, thence to the lorry. (KC)(JD)
Location: Sweden
Date:
System: 1903
Customer’s business: Newspaper
Applications:
Remarks This 1903 was upgraded by the installation of the first production 2812 (EDS 30 Disc controller) in 1971. (MLNF) (AT)
Location: Southwell, Notts
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks:
(FAW)
Location
Date:
System:
Customer’s business: Gears and other heavy engineering
Applications:
Remarks
(FAW)
Location: Sheffield
Date:
System: 1902
Customer’s
business:
Steel Mfg
Applications: Computer Services
Remarks:
Davy Ashmore is a double entry as, in
addition to their Steel Manufacturing, did have a separate traditional Computer
Bureau installation, that touted for business in the payroll etc. marketplace. (VH)
Location: Sheffield
Date:
System: 1904
Customer’s
business:
Steel Mfg
Applications:
Remarks:
(VH)
Location: Eastbourne
Date: 13th October1970 (1903A) upgraded in April 1971 to 1904A
System: 1903A upgraded to 1904A (1971) – both machines fitted with EDS30’s - subsequent upgrades followed including a 1904S
Customer’s business:
Applications: Payment of Dentist Fees
Remarks: The DEB used 1900 computers to process the payment
of Dentists Fees, using information supplied on Patient Estimate Forms. The
suite of programs to do this were designed and written by an in-house team of
System Analysts and Programmers. The programs were written in 1900 Plan and
COBOL. The data input medium was paper tape, and a team of 240 data preparation
staff was employed to punch the Estimate Form information. Linotype-Paul
Limited supplied the data preparation equipment, this being equal numbers of
verifiers and perforators.
It is interesting to note that when the programs were
written, the programmers used the date format of DD/MM/YY in order to save two
characters capacity on every date stored. It was anticipated that the system
would be replaced well before 31st December 1999, nearly 30 years
hence. In fact the system was still operational in the 1990s and in 1996 much
effort had to be devoted to upgrading the dates to cope with Year 2000. (PG) Ref. 1900
computers in Sussex
Location: Ashdown House in Hasting
Date:
System:
Customer’s business: Government Dept.
Applications:
Remarks
(PG) See 1900
computers in Sussex
Location: Newcastle
Date:
System: Various up to to 1906A's
Customer’s
business:
Social
Security
Applications:
SS
records etc.
Remarks
(MLNF)
Location Wigan
Date:
System:
1902A
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(CH)
Location: Sunderland
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s
business:
Applications:
Remarks: An unusual model this as it was a Handswitch model ( no console
typewriter ). (RB)
Location Dundee
Date:
System: 1903?
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(JCBr)
Location: Liverpool?
Date:
System: 1901, then added EMU, then 1901A
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (CH)
Location Leicester
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (AW)
Location Harrowgate?
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (CH)
Location Harrowgate?
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (CH)
Location: Eastbourne, Sussex
Date: From early 1969 to 1978, then 2904
System: 1901 (1969), successive upgrades (for details and configurations see 1900 computers in Sussex )
Customer’s
business:
Local Authority
Applications: For list of applications over time see 1900 computers in Sussex
Remarks: See 1900 computers in Sussex (PG)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s business: Local Government
Applications:
Local Government applications including:
Payroll
Creditors
Council Tax or Rates as it was known in the 1960s and
70s
Housing Rents
Mortgages (Councils used to be able to lend money to
local residents for house purchases)
Housing Benefits
Miscellaneous Income
Register of Electors
Financial Accounting
Cash Receipting
Remarks
(PG) See 1900
computers in Sussex
Location: Luton
Date:
System: 1904E
Customer’s business:
Applications: Business
Remarks
(RdF)
Location Uttoxeter
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business: Biscuit manufacturer
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location:
River Don Wks.,
Date:
System: 1902
Customer’s
business:
Steel Mfg.
Applications:
Remarks:
Many 1902 Systems were ultimately upgraded
to 1903's (a 5 minute job of removing a '1902 slowing down' link wire, as I
remember). (VH)
Location Manchester
Date:
System:
1903
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location: Sweden
Date:
System:
Customer’s business: Banking
Applications:
Remarks:
(They started with 1301/2s, then 1900’s).
(MLNF)
Location
Preston
Date:
System: 1902
Customer’s business: TV Rentals
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location West Wickham
Date:
System:
1902
Customer’s business:
Applications: Membership Records
Remarks
(PEP)
Location Leicester
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (AW)
Location Stockport
Date:
System:
1901
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location Chapel-en-le-Frith
Date:
System:
1902
Customer’s
business:
Brake linings manuf
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location Oldham
Date:
System: 19004
Customer’s business: Electronics manufacturers
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location: Fiji
Date:
System: 2 1900's (?)
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
“I also recollect we had 100 percent of the
Fiji Market with 1900. Two machines I think”. (MLNF)
Location Preston Liverpool
Date:
System: 1902, 1902A
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
I think
this 1902A was our first Cobol only site
(CH)(JD)
Location:
Sheffield
Date:
System: 1902
Customer’s
business:
Tool Mfg
Applications:
Remarks:
(VH)
Location Surrey
Date:
System:
1902/3
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(PEP)
Location Manchester
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business: Diesel engine manufacturer
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location Sheffield
Date:
System: 1902
Customer’s business: Automotive Components Supplier
Applications:
Remarks
(VH)
Location Market Harborough
Date:
System: 1903
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (AW)
Location Bradford, Yorkshire (West Yorkshire from 1974)
Date: 1967 to 1980(ish)
System: 1906E x 2
Customer’s business: Agency Mail Order
Applications: Order Processing, Agents’ Records, Stock Control, Forecasting
Remarks (PAL)
Location: Walsall?
Date:
System: 1902
Customer’s
business:
High Street Chain
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location: Hastings, Sussex
Date:
System:
Customer’s business: Local Government
Applications:
Local Government applications including:
Payroll
Creditors
Council Tax or Rates as it was known in the 1960s and
70s
Housing Rents
Mortgages (Councils used to be able to lend money to
local residents for house purchases)
Housing Benefits
Miscellaneous Income
Register of Electors
Financial Accounting
Cash Receipting
Remarks (PG) See 1900 computers in Sussex
Location
Surrey
Date:
System:
1902/3
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(PEP)
Location: Hove, Sussex
Date:
System:
Customer’s business: Local Government
Applications:
Local Government applications including:
Payroll
Creditors
Council Tax or Rates as it was known in the 1960s and
70s
Housing Rents
Mortgages (Councils used to be able to lend money to
local residents for house purchases)
Housing Benefits
Miscellaneous Income
Register of Electors
Financial Accounting
Cash Receipting
Remarks
(PG) See 1900
computers in Sussex
Location: Hatfield
Date:
System: 1905F (?) 1904A
Customer’s business:
Applications: Aircraft Design , Business
Remarks
(RdF) (FAW)
Location:
Date:
System: 1904
Customer’s business: Aircraft Manufacturer
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location:
Date:
System: 1905F
Customer’s business:
Applications: Design
Remarks
(RdF)(FAW)
Location Leicester
Date:
System: 1903
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (AW)
Location: Stockport
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business: Car Main Dealer
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location: Accrington
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business: Textile machinery manuf
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location Wallingford
Date:
System:
1903A (?)
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(TP)
Location: Letchworth
Date:
System:
Customer’s business: Computers Manufacturer
Applications: Payrolls
Remarks
Location:
Letchworth and Stevenage and Feltham
Date:
System:
Customer’s business: Computers Manufacturer
Applications:
Corporate Systems including installed base of “all” equipment
with customers (ODBS). Many other corporate applications including maintenance
data base etc.
Remarks (MLNF)
Location: Letchworth later moved to Stevenage (see above).
Date:
System:
Customer’s business: Computers Manufacturer
Applications: Factory scheduling
Remarks (MLNF)
Location: Putney and later Reading and Bracknell
Date:
System:
Customer’s business: Computers Manufacturer
Applications: Software development
Remarks
The
Bracknell installation was one of the biggest agglomerations of 1900s in the
world at one time. Famously a visiting member of the Royal Family on a tour
looked down from the visitors’ gallery of the Computer Room and remarked that
the sale value of the equipment they could see below was greater than the stock
market valuation of ICL. (MLNF)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
Manufactured 1901’s, mainly for export from
Location:
Burton on Trent
Date:
System: 1904
Customer’s
business:
Applications:
Remarks:
(BB)
Location: Trafford, Manchester
Date:
System:
1901
Customer’s business: Instrumentation
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location Leicester
Date:
System: 1903
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (AW)
Location: Iraq
Date:
System: 1905s & 6s
Customer’s business: Govt. and oil authority
Applications:
Remarks
Oh
dear! (MLNF)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s
business:
Textiles
Applications:
Remarks:
(FAW)
Location: UK
Date:
1960’s
System:
1901
Customer’s business:
Applications: Bureau for Retailers
Remarks
(WJM)
Location: Sunderland
Date:
System: 1902
Customer’s
business:
Manufacturing
Applications:
Remarks:
Makers of the PYREX glassware (RB)
Location: Sheffield
Date:
System: 1902
Customer’s
business:
Eclipse Tool Mfg
Applications:
Remarks:
(VH)
Location Liverpool
Date:
System:
1901A
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks this machine was installed inside a bonded
warehouse - which was mainly full of RUM - imported from the Carribean - you
cannot imagine the atmosphere inside there unless you've tried it - after an
hour you had to go for a walk outside to sober up (CH)
Location: Trafford, Manchester
Date:
System: 1903
Customer’s business: Cereal Manufacturer
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location London (Camberwell Green)
Date:
System:
1905E
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks They were the first
hospital to attempt putting patients notes direct on to the computer. Using a
1905E They used Cossor Vids in the first
phase then changed to ICLs own local vids. Their haematology unit also put
there results from patients tests on the computer via paper tape (BF)
Location: Preston
Date: 1966
System:
Customer’s business: Local Admin. (County Council)
Applications:
Remarks: (JET). A lot of other UK councils had 1900’s, perhaps 50 councils. (MLNF)
Location
Date:
System: 1902?
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(JCBr)
Location: Altrincham
Date:
System: 1902
Customer’s
business:
Printers
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location Liverpool
Date:
System: 1901A
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(CH)
Location
Sutton,
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(FAW)
Location Port Dudley
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(FAW)
Location: Colne, Lancs
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business: Package Holiday Company
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location: Farnborough, Hants
Date:
System: 1902A
Customer’s
business:
Supermarket
Applications: Stock Control, Delivery Schedules
Remarks:
Supermarket Main Depot (TH)
Location: Guilford, Surrey
Date:
System: 1904F
Customer’s
business:
Central Government
Applications: Payable Orders
Remarks:
(TH)
Location: Sale, Gt Manchester
Date:
System:
1902
Customer’s business: Computer bureau
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location West London
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(FAW)
Location Sevenoaks
Date:
System: 1904
Customer’s business:
Applications: Accounts/Invoicing
Remarks
(PEP)
Location: Mauritius
Date:
System: 1903
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
At that point we had 100 percent of the
Mauritius market as it was the only computer there. We got it in by ousting a
small IBM machine just before they held their 100 percent Sales Club meeting
there. (MLNF)
Location: Manchester
Date:
System:
1901
Customer’s business: Pharmaceutical suppliers
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location:
Bury
Date:
System:
1902
Customer’s business: Paint Manufacturer
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location
Date:
System: 1905
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
Heavy Algol users (JKB)
Location: Stoke-on-Trent
Date:
System:
1902
Customer’s business: Tyre Manufacturers
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location Birmingham
Date: c. 1966
System: 1903
Customer’s business: Dairy Product deliveries Co.
Applications:
Wages
Remarks (BE)
Location Leicester
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks An unusual model this as it was a Handswitch model ( no console typewriter) (AW)
Location
Date:
System:
1904
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(PEP)
Location:
Northwood
Date:
System:
Customer’s
business:
Applications: Operations Control
Remarks:
(FAW)
Location Stamford
Date:
System:
1902
Customer’s business:
Applications: Accounts/Payroll
Remarks (PEP)
Location Stockport
Date:
System:
1904
Customer’s business:
Applications: Accounts/Payroll
Remarks (PEP)
Location:
Battersea,
Date:
October 1965 (replacing a British
Hollerith 1201)
System: 1902 (4 x Mag Tape Drives 2 x Card readers 1 x Card Punch 1 x Line Printer)
Customer’s business: Manufactured crucibles, carbon brushes and seals
Applications: ICT Payroll and developed in-house General, Sales and Purchase Ledgers, Production and Inventory Control in PLAN, and Production Simulation using Simscript and Fortran
Remarks:
the first 1902 commercial installation,
programmed in Plan, FORTRAN and Simscript (MB)
Location: Jarrow
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s
business:
Applications:
Remarks:
They supplied resistors to ICL (RB)
Location: Longbridge Birmingham
Date: 1966
System: 1904
Customer’s
business:
Car design/production
Applications: Wages
Remarks:
(BE)
Location Blackburn Mitcham
Date:
System: 1903 1904A
Customer’s business: Electronics manufacturers
Applications:
Accounts
Remarks
(JD)(PEP)
Location Salfords
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(FAW)
Location Reigate
Date:
System: 1901T
Customer’s business:
Applications: Payroll
Remarks
(PEP)
Location Brighton
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Applications: Payroll
Remarks
(PEP)
Location: Gateshead
Date:
System: 1909
Customer’s
business:
Applications: Payroll
Remarks: This
was the first 1301 site in the North. A 1909 system was installed to replace 3
x 1301. At its peak this site did a weekly payroll for 100,000 miners. (RB)
Location: West Indies
Date: 1970/71
System:
1901
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(WJM)
Location: Stockport
Date:
System:
1901
Customer’s business: Furniture Retailer
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location Birmingham
Date:
System: 1902
Customer’s
business:
Engineering Co.
Applications: Wages etc.
Remarks
(BE)
Location Rotherham
Date:
System: 1902 (first in the area)
Customer’s business: Credit Providers
Applications:
Remarks (VH)
Location: Woking, Surrey
Date:
System: 1901A
Customer’s
business:
Local Authority
Applications: Water Rate Billing
Remarks:
(TH)
Location Wandsworth
Date:
System: 1904
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(BF)
Location
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(FAW)
Location Northallerton
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(FAW)
Location Liverpool
Date:
System: 1902A
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(CH)
Location Nuneaton
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (AW)
Location Liverpool
Date:
System: 1902 then 1902A then IBM
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(CH) (JD) (PEP)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
Manufactured 1900’s (FAW)
Location: UK
Date:
1960’s
System:
1901
Customer’s business:
Applications: On-line order processing(first I believe).
Remarks
(WJM)
Location Liverpool
Date:
System:
1902A
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks Our first big win from IBM - we all got medals for that one. (CH)
Location Fareham
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(FAW)
Location:
Manchester
Date:
System:
1901
Customer’s
business: Gas
Appliance Manufacturer
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location:
St Helens
Date:
System: 1904 and 1909 or 1907 , then 1904E and 1905E or F (CH), 1904A
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks They installed a system called
"minimac" - a multiaccess system, free standing on a 1904a that ran
George 2 (I think) - using teletypes and a
language called Jean (a bit like Basic). (JO) (PEP)(JD)(CH)
Location Southampton
Date:
System: 1902/3
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(PEP)
Location:
Oldham
Date:
System:
1902
Customer’s
business: Engineering
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location: Poole etc.
Date:
System: 1904 etc., 2 x 1906 (eventually)
Customer’s business: Electronic manufacturing
Applications:
Remarks: Major, major ICT account (KC)
The roof of the enormous computer
room fell in early one Sunday morning. A
temporary building and replacement systems were organised (ICL Project
managing) in hours/days (not weeks). It was written up in the press as a heroic
rescue. (MLNF)
(FAW)(PEP)
Location Liverpool
Date:
System:
1901
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(CH)
Location London
Date:
System:
1904
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(PEP)
Location: Australia
Date: 1966?
System: Early 1902, 1903.
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks The distinction between 1902 and 1903 here and elsewhere is fairly arbitrary as most 1902s were subsequently upgraded to 1903s. (MLNF)
Location: Australia
Date: 1966?
System: Early 1902, 1903.
Customer’s business:
Applications: Highway work planning and design and general administration
Remarks: (MLNF)
Location Colwyn Bay
Date:
System:
1903 then 1903A
Customer’s business: Car Spares
Applications:
Remarks
(CH)(JD)
Location:
Amersham
Date:
System:
Customer’s
business:
Applications:
Remarks:
(FAW)
Location Leicester
Date:
System: 1903
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (AW)
Location:
Heald
Green
Date:
System:
1902
Customer’s
business: Chain
Manufacturer
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location:
Manchester
Date:
System:
1901
Customer’s
business: Engineering
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location: Grimsby
Date:
System: 1902
Customer’s
business:
Frozen Food
Applications:
Remarks:
(VH)
Location:
Stoke-on-Trent
Date:
System:
1901
Customer’s
business: Pottery
Manufacturer
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location
Date:
System: 1909, 1905 then 1906S(?)
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(MLNF) (JKB)(PG)(PEP)
Location
Date:
System: 1904?
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(MLNF) (JKB) (VVP)
Location:
Lincoln
Date:
System: 1902
Customer’s
business:
Mobile Crane Mfg
Applications:
Remarks:
(VH)
Location: South Africa
Date:
System: 1906s eventually, smaller first.
Customer’s business: Electricity generation and distribution
Applications:
Remarks
(MLNF)
Location Blackfriars
Date:
System:
1904
Customer’s
business:
Supermarket
Applications: Stock movements
Remarks
(PEP)
Location Streatham
Date:
System:
1901
Customer’s
business:
Supermarket
Applications: Accounts
Remarks
(PEP)
Location Canada
Date: 1964
System: FP6000 in 1964 later replaced by a 1903A in 1969
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(JC)
Location: South Africa
Date:
System: 1906s eventually, smaller first.
Customer’s business: Insurance
Applications:
Remarks
(MLNF)
Location Chilton
Date:
System:
1906A
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks This site was famous for its Atlas which was replaced by a 1906A. This was installed from April to October 1971 and ran under George 4. I actually have a copy of the Proposal with full details of the hardware etc. if anyone is interested. I suppose you could say the customers business was computing. Applications were mainly scientific. (TP)
Location: Sweden
Date:
System:
Customer’s business: Banking
Applications:
Remarks
(they started with 1301/2s). (MLNF)
Location
Edinburgh (St Andrew’s Square)
Date: 1965
System: 1904 (Serial no 004)
Customer’s business: Insurance
Applications:
Remarks (JCBr) This m/c was basically a FP6000 in ICT 1900 colours. It was pre-standard interface and had 5 Burroughs tape decks,
1 Analex printer, a paper tape reader, a paper tape punch, and
unbelievable these days, 16Kb of main store!
Location: UK
Date:
1960’s
System:
1901
Customer’s business:
Applications: Order processing, invoicing and ledger system
Remarks
(WJM)
Location: USSR
Date:
System: 1903A then in 1973 2 x 1906A's
Customer’s business: High energy physics Research Institute (USSR equivalent of Harwell)
Applications:
Remarks: “I went over there for a week to teach them how to alter the
1903A Executive to allow them to attach their own devices via the S.I. and be
able to drive them” (KC) This was
shortly before the 1906A’s arrived (where the Americans had a
dedicated tape deck on the 1906A’s that monitored what they did) (MLNF)
Location: Farnborough, Hants
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Manufacturer
Applications: Stock Control
Remarks:
(TH)
Location London (Elephant and Castle)
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(BF)
Location:
Date:
System: 1902
Customer’s
business:
Local Government
Applications:
Remarks: Progressed through various larger models
then to 2950DME and on to S39. (RB)
Location: Mitcham (?)
Date:
System: 1904
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (AT) Upgraded by the installation of a 2812 (EDS 30 controller) in Jan 1972
Location Peterborough
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (AW)
Location Leicester
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (AW)
Location:
Lancaster
Date:
System:
1901
Customer’s
business: Plastic
covering manuf.
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location Blackpool
Date:
System: 1902 then 1902A
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(CH)
Location:
Rotherham
Date:
System: 1902
Customer’s
business:
Rolled Wire Mfg
Applications:
Remarks:
(VH)
Location:
Oldham
Date:
System:
19092
Customer’s
business: School
suppliers
Applications:
Remarks
First VDU site (JD)
Location: Farnborough, Hants
Date:
System: 1904
Customer’s
business:
Applications: Directory Database, Billing
Remarks:
(TH)
Location Leicester
Date:
System: 1904
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (AW)
Location
Date:
System:
Customer’s business: Clothing manufacturer
Applications:
Remarks (FAW)
Location
Toronto, Canada
Date:
1969
System:
1903A
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (JC)
Location Liverpool
Date:
System:
1901A
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(CH)
Location: Honk Kong
Date: 1972
System: 1904A (See JUCC 1904A System Configuration)
Customer’s business: Hong Kong Universities Computer Services
Applications: See 1900JUCC SOFTWARE AND OPERATING ENVIRONMENT
Remarks Hyperlinks display extracts from “An Introduction to the J.U.C.C.” document July 1972 provided by Timothy Goldingham (TG)
Location: Birmingham
Date:
System:
1905
Customer’s business: University Campus
Applications:
Wages + Student compilation/testing.
Remarks (BE)
Location: Bath
Date:
System: Certainly grew to a 1906 or 7
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
This was an early member of the Joint
Academic Network. The network
was operational in the 1970's. (FAW)
(MLNF) (JKB)
Location: Benares (India)
Date:
System:
Customer’s business: University Campus
Applications:
Remarks (FAW)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s
business:
University
Applications:
Remarks (FAW)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s
business:
University
Applications:
Remarks (FAW)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks:
(FAW)
Location:
Uxbridge
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks:
(FAW)
Location: Cambridge
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Applications: Student Records
Remarks
(PEP)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks:
(FAW)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks:
(FAW)
Location:
Date:
System: 1905?
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(MLNF) (JKB)
Location:
Date:
System: 1905
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(MLNF) (JKB)
Location: Exeter
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(MLNF) (JKB)
Location: Glasgow
Date:
System: 1906A
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (MLNF)
Location: Guilford, Surrey
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s
business:
Education
Applications: Program Compilation
Remarks:
(TH)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks:
(MLNF )(JKB)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks:
(FAW)
Location: New Delhi
Date: 1967
System: 1909
Customer’s business: Research and Teaching
Applications:
Remarks: Supplied by ICT under the Colombo Plan, together with an assistant professor/computer centre manager (John Buckle from ICT) (MLNF)(JKB).
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(MLNF)(FAW)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks:
(FAW)
Location Loughborough
Date:
System: 1905
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (JKB) (AW)
Location: Oxford
Date:
System: also had a 1906A (TP)
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks: (MLNF)(TP)
Location: Manchester
Date: 1966 or 1967?
System: 1905E/F
Customer’s business:
Applications: Design of MU5 Operating System. Later was a Front-End to MU5
Remarks A paged version
of the 1905E/F (first 1900 processor with Segmentation and Paging) which was used
at Manchester University to support development of early version MU5 operating
system software. It
was eventually used as the front-end processor for MU5, handling all the
I/O peripherals. (ECPP) (MLNF)(CPB)(SL)
Location:
Hendon
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks:
(FAW)
Location: London
Date: May-65
System: 1905
Customer’s business: University (City University)
Applications: Research and Teaching
Remarks First 1900 ever delivered (MLNF) (JKB)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks:
(FAW)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s
business:
University
Applications:
Remarks (FAW)
Location: University of London
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(MLNF) (JKB)
Location: Belfast
Date:
System: 1907
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(MLNF)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s
business:
University
Applications:
Remarks (FAW)
Location: Guilford, Surrey
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks:
(MLNF)(JKB)
Location:
Date:
System: 1905
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(MLNF) (JKB)
Location: Sheffield
Date:
System: 1907
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks: An early 1907 customer. The Wilson government decided to give the UKAEA priority and I (as the responsible Sales Manager) had to go and tell the University that their machine (due in about a month) would be delayed at least 6 months but for security reasons I was not allowed to tell them why. I don’t think they ever forgave ICT. (MLNF)
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Date:
System: Originally a 1902, eventually 2 x 1900As at least.
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks: resulted in us going into collaborative
development with them). A classic of salesmanship. An enthusiastic ICT Australia salesman sold
them a 1902 but it was too powerful (sic) for them so he agreed the company
would buy back half the time on the machine. ICT Australia persuaded SPO to
establish a software development operation there to use it. Of course the
programmers soon used up the “spare” power and eventually a team of 80 had to
have two machines of their own in addition to the University one. (MLNF)
Location: Southampton
Date:
System: 1909 followed by a 1907
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (MLNF) (JKB)
Location:
Date:
System: 1905?
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(MLNF) (JKB)(JCBr)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(MLNF) (JKB)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(MLNF) (JKB)(FAW)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(FAW)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s
business:
University
Applications:
Remarks (FAW)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s
business:
University
Applications:
Remarks (FAW)
Location:
Date:
System: Several 1900's
Customer’s business: Research Institute
Applications: Nuclear Research
Remarks
(MLNF)
Location Liverpool
Date: From 1967 to 2001
System: 1901, then 2 x 1902A, 2 x 1903A, 3 x 1903T, 3 x 1904S, 3 x 1904S* we then went to 35 x ME29, 3 x 2960,2 x 2966, 2 x 2988, 2 x S39 L60, 2 x S39L80, then lots of FJ servers, then big Sun beasts.
Customer’s business: Pharmaceutical suppliers
Applications:
Remarks
the 1901 had 20kc/s tapes only, and we introduced EDS8 with the
1902A. (JD)(CH)
Location: `
Date:
System: 1902, then 1903T and then 2960DME
Customer’s
business:
Applications:
Remarks: This was originally a 1301 site situated at
the tank factory works. The 1301 was replaced by a 1902 and later a new
building was built for a 1903T and then 2960DME. This system was the hub
of Vickers comms network with 2903
systems in various other sites around the country linked to the 2960. (RB)(VH)
Location: Guilford, Surrey
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s
business:
Manufacturer
Applications: Payroll, Billing
Remarks:
(TH)
Location Crick (Warks)
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (AW)
Location:
Date:
System:
Customer’s
business:
Applications:
Management of book and record clubs
Remarks
(FAW)
Location:
Darwen,
Lancs
Date:
System:
1902
Customer’s
business: Paint
Manufacturer
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location: Sussex
Date:
System:
Customer’s business: Local Government
Applications:
Local Government applications including:
Payroll
Creditors
Council Tax or Rates as it was known in the 1960s and
70s
Housing Rents
Mortgages (Councils used to be able to lend money to
local residents for house purchases)
Housing Benefits
Miscellaneous Income
Register of Electors
Financial Accounting
Cash Receipting
Remarks: (PG) See 1900 computers in Sussex
Location:
Date:
System:
1902
Customer’s
business: Pottery
Manufacturer
Applications:
Remarks
(JD)
Location Bristol
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(FAW)
Location London
Date:
System: 1904
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
sold their 1904 to
Dalgety (BF)
Location: Woking, Surrey
Date:
System: 1902A
Customer’s
business:
Local Authority
Applications: Payroll, Rates
Remarks:
(TH)
Location: Worthing, Sussex
Date:
System:
Customer’s business: Local Government
Applications:
Local Government applications including:
Payroll
Creditors
Council Tax or Rates as it was known in the 1960s and
70s
Housing Rents
Mortgages (Councils used to be able to lend money to
local residents for house purchases)
Housing Benefits
Miscellaneous Income
Register of Electors
Financial Accounting
Cash Receipting
Remarks (PG) See 1900 computers in Sussex
Location Leicester
Date:
System: 1901
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks (AW)
Location: Castleton (Rochdale)
Date:
System: 1903 (JO) (or 1904? (JD))
Customer’s
business:
Retailers
Applications:
Remarks (JD) “I was part of the team that wrote and installed a system with a local VDU controller and 32 (I think later 64) VDU's, used for invoice entry.”(JO)
Location Glasgow
Date:
System:
Customer’s business:
Applications:
Remarks
(PEP)
