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Manchester and it’s Place in the History of Computing
were two of the Company’s Past Masters:
Sir Brian Jenkins and Dame Stephanie
Shirley.
Recent years have been witness to further
anniversaries. On 5th December 2012 the
50th Anniversary of the Atlas computer was
celebrated at Manchester, for which Simon
Lavington had produced The Atlas Story and
conducted a video interview with Dai
Edwards and the engineer Yao Chen. More
celebrations followed on 21st June last year,
the 65th Anniversary of the Baby computer,
for which Google had conducted interviews
and made a video.
The WCIT Company is associated with
Manchester’s work in an enduring way, as
Working on the Expanded Machine (June 1949)
Past Master David Morriss generously
Left to right: Dai Edwards, FC Williams, Tom Kilburn, Alec Robinson, and Tommy Thomas
donated a bookcase for the Members’ Room
n 21st June 1948 the Baby
Kilburn, Dai Edwards, and Tommy Thomas. to house an IT Library, duly filled by Joan
Smith who called on pioneers in the field for
Machi