Oral history interview with Tom Kilburn, 1976.

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Oral history interview with Tom Kilburn, 1976.

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Kilburn discusses computer development in the 1940s and 1950s at the University of Manchester, where he worked under Professor F. C. Williams on a cathode ray tube storage system (known generally as the Williams tube). Kilburn explains how the Williams tube's immediate access capability rendered it superior to the mercury delay line, the prevailing memory system at the time. He discusses technical problems in constructing the Williams tube. He also surveys Manchester's joint work with Ferranti Ltd. on a magnetic drum memory to use in conjunction than the Williams tube.

Sound cassette : 1 (60 min.) : analog, mono.Transcript : 16 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Kilburn, Tom, 1921-

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