side panels
- PART OF:
- Elliott / NRDC 401 Mk I Mainframe
6 side panels for cabinets 1-6, 2 side panels for cabinet 0, and 1 end panels.Detached from main unit. For 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.
Details
- Category:
- Computing & Data Processing
- Object Number:
- 1965-445 Pt12
- Measurements:
-
End Panels: 1850 mm x 595 mm x 70 mm, 30 kg
Cabinet 0: 1850 mm x 450 mm x 10 mm,
Cabinets 1-6: 1850 mm x 575 mm x 10 mm,
- type:
- side panels
- credit:
- National Research Development Corporation
