Oral history interview with Arthur L. C. Humphreys, 1981 Feb 28.

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Oral history interview with Arthur L. C. Humphreys, 1981 Feb 28.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63276420

Humphreys reviews the history of the British computer industry. Topics include: the termination in 1949 of the trade agreement between International Business Machines and the British Tabulating Machine Company, the merger in 1959 of British Tabulating and the Powers Samas Company into International Computers and Tabulators (ICT), and the merger in 1968 English Electric Computers with ICT to form ICL. Humphreys explains how the last merger was enacted by the government to establish a single national computer company. He recalls the government's pride, as expressed by Prime Minister Harold Wilson, in maintaining a position in the international computer industry.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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