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62896 Lenaerts report: Possible Improvements to Mercury Delay Storage, 19th Aug 1953

Photocopy of a paper with handdrawn diagrams by Ernest Lenaerts, suggesting improvements to the mercury delay line system of storage on the LEO computer, dated 19th August 1953.

Date : 19th August 1953

Creator : Lenaerts, Ernest

Physical Description : 7 pages, paper; manuscript and typescript; photocopies

Provenance :
The photocopies were originally requested by Peter Bird, as part of his research for LEO - The First Business Computer, and later donated to the NAHC, then transferred to CCH at the request of the LEO Computers Society for inclusion in their archive. The original file is still held with the Ernest Lenaerts papers at the University of Manchester Library, ref. GB 133 EHL/5.

Archive References : CMLEO/EL/CW/2 , CCH OE 778.159-165 , DCMLEO20210118003-009

This exhibit has a reference ID of CH62896. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.

Article: 62896 Lenaerts report: Possible Improvements to Mercury Delay Storage, 19th Aug 1953

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Copyright
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File Size: 4.43 MB

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