Birthday Celebrations

BCS 50th and BCS North Staffordshire Branch 40th Anniversaries and opening of the BCS and Staffordshire University Museum of Computing Event.

History of Computing.  Afternoon and Evening Exhibition, Staffordshire University, Beaconside, Stafford.

Programme of Events

2:00 (coffee) for 2:15 start
2:15 David Ozanne: "English Electric and their Early Computers"
2:55 Brian Warboys: "The KDF9 EGDON project (1963-1965)"
3:35 Coffee
4:00 John Macfarlane: "Wasn't it Big? Review of shrinking size of computers"
4:40 Davie Stewart: "Computing after the Mainframe"
5:20 Old kit swap & Network
6:00 Buffet
7:00 Grand opening of the BCS and Staffordshire University Museum of Computing by Len Keighley BCS HQ.
7:15 Ian Sunley: "The Future of Computing" Download the presentation
8:30 -9:00 Finish   

Here are some pictures from the event.

Picture of David Ozanne giving a presentation on English Electric and their Early Computers	Picture of John Macfarlane giving a presentation on Wasn't it Big? Review of shrinking size of computers	Picture of Davie Stewart giving a presentation on Computing after the Mainframe
Picture of Alan Rawson, John Robinson, John Deas, Brian Warboys & Dave Stewart	Picture of Alan Rawson, John Deas, (back of John Hopkinson), Peter Westmacott	Picture of Thessalie Robinson and other members of the BCS.
Picture of Alan Rawson, John Hopkinson, Richard French, Rod Grealish.	Picture of Alan Rawson & John Hopkinson viewing two of the display cabinets.	Picture of Alan Rawson, Rod Grealish, John Hopkinson, Brain Warboys, David Ozanne.
Picture of Roger Poole, Ian Sunley, David Ozanne, Rod Grealish, David Hodgkiss	Picture of Mike Goodwin the Dean of the Faculty of Computing, Engineering & Technology	Picture of Len Keighley, BCS HQ.
Picture of Ian Sunley giving a presentation on The Future of Computing	Picture of Rod Grealish, Len Keighley, BCS HQ, Malcolm Smith, back of John Hopkinson, Thessalie Robinson, John Robinson, David Hodgkiss	Picture of Alan Rawson, Roger Poole, Peter Westmacott, David Ozanne, Nicos Synodinos