Moving Targets: Elliott-Automation and the Dawn of the Computer Age in Britain, 1947-1967

摘要

Simon Lavington's Moving Targets is an account of the rise and fall of British computing manufacturer Elliott-Automation. It strives to contextualize Elliott's many advances within the wider scope of British, American, and global computing. Lavington's work charts the company's prehistory and inception in the decades surrounding the Second World War to its eventual financial woes in the 1960s and its absorption into ICL-the government-supported merged company created in 1968, largely to compete with IBM.