The Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer (RREAC) was an early solid-state computer in 1962. It was made with transistors; many of Britain's previous...
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The Royal Radar Establishment was a research centre in Malvern, Worcestershire in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1953 as the Radar Research Establishment...
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Transistorised Automatic Computer (T.A.C.) Marconi Myriad Metrovick 950 MOSAIC Pilot ACE Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer SOLIDAC "Bywood...
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Flex machine (category Computers designed in the United Kingdom)
The Flex Computer System was developed by Michael Foster and Ian Currie of Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE) in Malvern, England, during the...
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" The name was changed to Radar Research Establishment in 1953, and again to the Royal Radar Establishment in 1957. This article covers the precursor...
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Susan G. Bond (category British computer programmers)
language ALGOL 68 and the Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer (RREAC), an early solid-state electronics, ICL 1907F computer. Bond was born in 1942...
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III IBM 7072 (6/62) IBM 7094 (9/62) Autonetics D-17B Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer Telefunken TR4 RW-400 aka AN/FSQ-27 by TRW SDS 910 SDS...
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The Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was a British early electronic serial stored-program computer design by Alan Turing. Turing completed the ambitious...
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Philip Woodward (category People associated with radar)
electronic computers, the TRE Automatic Computer (TREAC) followed by the UK's first solid state computer, the Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer. He...
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In 1948, all of the Royal Navy's radio and radar R&D activities were combined to form the Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment, located near Portsmouth...
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Airdrie Academy (category 1849 establishments in Scotland)
to 1967 of the Royal Radar Establishment (wartime scientist working on radar); designed the Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer (RREAC), the first...
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Aegis Combat System (redirect from Aegis radar)
which uses computers and radars to track and guide weapons to destroy enemy targets. It was developed by the Missile and Surface Radar Division of RCA...
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after an experimental model by the Royal Radar Establishment, it was in British service from 1962 until 1975 with the Royal Artillery. A self-propelled version...
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gesture detection for computer interaction. Automatic door opening, light activation and intruder sensing are also common. A radar system has a transmitter...
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Protection RARDE – Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment (UK) RATAC – Radar de Tir pour L'Artillerie de Campagne (radar for field artillery...
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Terrain-following radar (TFR) is a military aerospace technology that allows a very-low-flying aircraft to automatically maintain a relatively constant...
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A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation). Modern digital...
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TREAC (category Computer music)
parallel computer, the first in the UK. TREAC was switched off in 1962, and replaced with the Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer (RREAC, the...
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Rapier (missile) (redirect from Blindfire (radar))
time, Colin Baron and John Twinn at the Royal Aircraft Establishment were developing an optical semi-automatic command to line of sight (SACLOS) system...
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Ted Cooke-Yarborough (category Computer designers)
the Harwell Dekatron, one of the world's early electronic computers and also a pioneer of radar. Ted Cooke-Yarborough was born at Campsall in the Yorkshire...
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AIRPASS (redirect from Airborne Interception Radar & Pilot's Attack Sight System)
"Aircraft Interception Radar and Pilot's Attack Sight System". In the Royal Air Force (RAF) it was given the official name Radar, Aircraft Interception...
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was the site of development of radar systems for the Government, and in 1947 produced a stored-program digital computer. By 1950 the laboratory had a staff...
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and radar or automatic radar plotting aid are historically used for this purpose. These preventive mechanisms sometimes fail due to time delays, radar limitations...
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Harwell CADET (redirect from Harwell CADET Computer)
the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, UK built the Harwell Dekatron Computer in 1951, which was an automatic calculator where the decimal...
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the new Swanwick centre, the American computer would not connect to the British radar in January 1996. Automatic Dependent Surveillance was being tested...
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Research Establishment conducting research on radar. In 1941 he enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and from 1943 taught radar and electronics...
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A counter-battery radar, weapon locating radar or weapon tracking radar is a radar system that detects artillery projectiles fired by one or more guns...
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Edsger W. Dijkstra (category Computer science educators)
'Communication with an Automatic Computer', devoted to a description of the assembly language designed for the first commercial computer developed in the Netherlands...
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radio detection and ranging (RADAR) at the Telecommunications Research Establishment, later the Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern. On 1 February 1942...
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Reeves AN/MSQ-77 Bomb Directing Central (category Radars of the United States Air Force)
AN/MSQ-77 Bomb Directing Central, Radar (nickname "Miscue 77") was a United States Air Force automatic tracking radar/computer system for command guidance of...
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