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Nova 3/12 minicomputer used in North West textile mill to monitor production using Dextralog software.
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Nova 3/12 minicomputer used in North West textile mill to monitor production using Dextralog software.
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Circuit board from Nova 3/12 minicomputer used in North West textile mill to monitor production using Dextralog
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Circuit board from Nova 3/12 minicomputer used in North West textile mill to monitor production using Dextralog
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Circuit board from Nova 3/12 minicomputer used in North West textile mill to monitor production using Dextralog
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Nova 3/12 minicomputer used in North West textile mill to monitor production using Dextralog software.
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Nova 3/12 minicomputer used in North West textile mill to monitor production using Dextralog software.
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Nova 3/12 minicomputer used in North West textile mill to monitor production using Dextralog software.
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Nova 3/12 minicomputer used in North West textile mill to monitor production using Dextralog software.
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Nova 3/12 minicomputer used in North West textile mill to monitor production using Dextralog software.
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Nova 3/12 minicomputer used in North West textile mill to monitor production using Dextralog software.
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Nova 3/12 minicomputer
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Nova 3/12 minicomputer, made by Data General Corporation, c.1973, used in a North West textile mill to monitor production using software made by Dextralog.
In the early 1970s, the Dextralog system solved a problem facing the Lancashire textiles industry. It sparked a revolution in how we use computers to make decisions. Dextralog used early computer technology to gather real-time data about how a weaving mill’s looms were performing. If a loom stopped, Dextralog pinpointed where, when and why. Now workers and managers had instant access to information that could drive better decisions and higher production and profits.
Setting standards in machine monitoring, Dextralog showed computers could transform data gathering and decision making.
The Dextralog system ran on this Nova computer.
Details
- Category:
- Textile Industry
- Object Number:
- 2016-2003.1
- type:
- minicomputer
- credit:
- Gift of Mr David Wood
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