Computing Collection

Promotional photograph for the IBM 1410
A female computer technician sits at an IBM 1410, in a promotional photograph for this business computer system. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Chimp with computer
Becky the chimpanzee (18 months old and raised at Twycross Zoo)sits on a cushion next to a IBM AT-5170 computer, touching the keyboard with her hand. Date: 1987

Sperry bomb-sight apparatus 1944
Diagram of a Sperry bomb-sight O-1 used by the United States Army Air Forces (USaF) bombers in World War Two. By manipulating the various control knobs

Computer. MAC model. Early 80 s. 20th century. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci. Milan. Italy

Man in an office with an Exidy Sorcerer computer and word processor. Date: circa late 1970s

Young woman working at a computer in a solicitors office. circa 1990

Advertisement, IBM Corporation
Advertisement, IBM (International Business Machines) Corporation -- speeding business through electronics. 1950

Sperry automatic computing gun sight by G. H. Davis
A mechanical brain: the Sperry automatic computing gun sight, in use during the Second World War. An invention which enabled US bombers to target a large number of enemy fighters. Date: 1944

Metropolitan Police vehicle database, London
View of the Metropolitan Police vehicle database at New Scotland Yard, London, with officers working at computer terminals, checking the details of stolen vehicles. (2 of 3) Date: 1974

Census tabulation in former Lambeth workhouse
Data from the 1931 census being transferred to punched cards in the former Lambeth workhouse - presumably the one on Princes Road (now Black Prince Road), Lambeth, south London

Computer operators
A female operator checks the terminal of a large IBM computer. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Computer Systems - Tape Storage
Three men examine a tape storgae device for a large industrial computer system. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

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