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The ICT 1301 Resurrection Project.
The Roll Of Honour
The List of people below have helped this project since its inception
Thanks go to contributors so far:- "Roll of
Honour"
Eddie, Phil Littlechild,
J.Prockter, James Boyle
Bruce Chalmers, Chris White
John McGarel, Dave Wilson, Tom Davis, Peter Vigar
Mike Trueblood, who invites you to visit " Mike's Home Page"
Stuart Fyfe and Andy Keene of Galdor ( former owners Of Flossie )
And to our suppliers of Parts for this project, only ever the best mentioned !
The Computer Junk Shop
an Ebay trader who delivers a First Class " Gold Standard " Service,
Dont let the Name fool you, this Ebay seller delivers only the best vintage components.
Without your help this project could not have continued.
We have also been cheered on by :-
Mike Curley, Mike Milsom
Alan Tubbs, Nigel Howarth,
Brian Spoor See his 1900 site
Pat Taylor, who did testing of the 1301's in stevenage.
and spent time as a programmer in Putney.
Bill Sheperd who remembers Putney in the 1300 and the 1500 days.
Chris Rowbotham, and also John Stannard who worked around the Lincoln area.
Paul France who worked for Hawker Siddeley (Aviation) in North Manchester.
Ian Snowdon who worked on 1301's over 38 years ago but still remembers how
to start the system, after all this time.
Len Arrowsmith, who did debuging of the early machines and was responsible for
end of production line testing in coventry.
Also from Marion Clarkson, who programmed a quite special
version of a 1301 at London and Manchester, round holed card Punch, 1/4 inch magnetic tape and
a special in the form of a round holed "Interstage" card reader giving 160 columns.
Also Tricia Gaines who worked as a programmer for the London and Manchester from
1963 to 1967 programming the ICT1301 and then again from 1974 to 1976 programming the
IBM System 4. Now Tricia (Hempsall since 2007!)
Tricia wonders if Marion remembers her from then ?
And a special thank you to Trevor Chapman.
We have also been contacted by Frank Moony who was a Leo Computer Engineer,
but still wishes us well.
To learn a little about the history of the Leo, follow this link
"Leo Information Web Site"
We have been contacted by Bill Foote, who was responsible for finalising the
"Initial Orders Software"
This is the bootstrap program, which was kept on the Drum and
the intelligence that got tthe 1301 loading and running programmes.
John Harper.
We thank John for his visit in 2005 and his donation to the project of valuable wire
wrapping equipment. John is busy with the Bombe rebuild project at Bletchly Park.
Royce Smith From NSW in furthest Australia, who is busy with work on an
MPL-2 Interpreter for the PC to run old and recovered source code on.
And now a special mention to all who worked on the machine with the owner before the project
List supplied by Roger
Owen Holmes:-
Who gave up the model railway, helped dismantle and move both Arthur and Flossie,
then reassembled them, re-wrapped (with me) Arthur as a basic machine, and re-soldered
(with me) Flossie's inter-rack connections and assisted debugging Flossie's hardware?
Richard Toft:-
Who helped debug Flossie later on and patched the roof to keep the water from
flooding onto Flossie, and his brother Roger Toft who repaired the generator several
times to keep Flossie in electricity, and with his brother laid the three phase supply
from the workshop into the computer room.
My elder brother Allan
Who repaired the valve oscilloscope for me so I could continue debugging.
All the chaps who helped me move the three machines from London to Kent.
Feel free to email the project by clicking the spinning logo below,
wherever you see it on the Site. Messages to any of the above will be forwarded

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