Cabinet No.0
circa 1953
Elliott / NRDC 401 Mk I Mainframe
- Made:
- 1952-1953 in United Kingdom
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Elliott/NRDC 401 Computer MkI, c.1953
This computer was used for eleven years at the Rothamsted Agricultural Institute for everything from analysis of crop trials and insect damage to work in the mathematics of genetics. It was brought there by Frank Yates, a wartime operational researcher who established Rothamsted as a peacetime statistical computing centre.
Yates had previously worked under the eminent statistician, Ronald Fisher, who laid the foundation for much of modern statistical research, including randomisation, crucial in clinical as well as agricultural trials today. Yates himself tirelessly encouraged the use of statistical analysis in government research.
Cabinet No.1
Cabinet No.2, for Elliott/NRDC 401 Computer MkI
Cabinet No.3
Cabinet No.4
Cabinet No.5
Cabinet No.6
Motor driven Disk Memory Unit
base unit
basine
top unit
side panels
air filters
interconnecting cables
Alternator Control Unit
engineer's test unit
electric typewriter
Manuals and documentation
Temperature gauge (left hand side when facing) from Elliot 401
Temperature gauge (right hand side when facing)
Four side panels and one end panel for Elliott / NRDC 401 Computer MkI
1952-1953
Faulty valves that have been removed from the Elliott / NRDC 401 Computer MkI by Elliott Brothers (London) Limited
1952-1953
Two air filters that would have been located in cabinet one of the Elliot / NRDC 401 Computer MkI
1952-1953
Two sequence switches that were part of the alternator for the Elliot / NRDC 401 Computer MkI
1952-1953
Metal bars for joining cabinets together in the Elliot / NRDC 401 Computer MkI
1952-1953
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Details
- Category:
- Computing & Data Processing
- Object Number:
- 1965-445
- Measurements:
-
Main Unit of Cabinets with Top Unit, Base Unit and End Panels included:: 2465 mm x 4187 mm x 610 mm, 1118 kg
- type:
- mainframe
- credit:
- National Research Development Corporation
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