A History of Computing

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Explore the evolution of computing – from the days when computers were so large that they would fill a room, to the personal desktop computers of the 1980s and 90s and today’s small, wearable devices.

Venue
Urban Sciences Building, Newcastle Helix

Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5TG

Price
Free
Dates
August 2, 2018 - September 9, 2018
Opening Times

9.00am – 5.00pm

No tickets required

Visitors to this exhibition will be able to see exhibits from a succession of historic computers that have provided Newcastle University’s computing service over the last sixty years, including a Ferranti Pegasus computer, believed to have been the first computer in the whole of the North East.

A major part of the display is centred on some of the most important and interesting parts of the iconic IBM System 360/67 – bought by Newcastle University in 1967 and at the time, the largest IBM computer in any British university. It was also Europe’s first time-sharing computer – a computer that could be used simultaneously from a number of widely dispersed keyboard terminals.

For details of other events on campus that form part of the University’s ‘Inspired by’ Great Exhibition of the North programme see our ‘Inspired by‘ events listing.

Venue: Urban Sciences Building, Newcastle Helix

A History of Computing

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