Computer Weekly 625

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Thursday, November 2, 1978

Price 18p

Publication Date : 2nd November 1978

Publication Contents :

Page	Item
1	'Probe ICL in S Africa' call [Article] Not credited Anti-apartheid activists recommend an investigation into ICL's business in South Africa.
5	Users hit out on all sides in BCS three-year survey [Article] Malcolm Peltu Discusses results of a survey conducted by the British Computer Society
13	Mystery over IBM RAM development [Article] Not credited IBM has been uncharacteristically quiet about the new memory it is developing.
15	BCS group assesses the impact of the micro [Article] John Race Discusses the activities of the Microprocessor Specialist Group of the BCS.
21	Oiling wheels of a distributed net [Article] Ruth Stein Case study of the use of distributed processing at Shell.
56	SA embargo 'a cosmetic gesture' [Article] Esmond Frank Argues that the existing US and proposed UK computer embargo on South Africa is of limited effectiveness, since unembargoed departments can simply share their equipment with others.

Creator : IPC

Format : Tabloid

Physical Description : Newspaper

This exhibit has a reference ID of CH54187. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.

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