The Orion was a mid-range mainframe computer introduced by Ferranti in 1959 and installed for the first time in 1961. Ferranti positioned Orion to be...
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second-generation mainframe computer developed and built by Ferranti-Packard, the Canadian division of Ferranti, in the early 1960s. It is particularly notable for...
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was the Ferranti Orion, which used an entirely new circuitry system known as "Neuron". This proved to be somewhat of a disaster, and only 12 Orion I machines...
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Look up Orion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orion may refer to: Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter Orion (mythology), a hunter...
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Ferranti Ferranti Argus Ferranti Mark 1, or Manchester Electronic Computer Ferranti Mercury Ferranti Orion Ferranti Pegasus Ferranti Perseus Ferranti...
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while several other large insurance firms followed. Emerging as the Ferranti Orion in 1961, the system proved to be a disaster. As the machine was much...
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ILLIAC ZEBRA EMI 1100 Ferranti Mercury, Pegasus, and Orion systems The steganographic code, commonly known as Bacon's...
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Atlas (computer) (redirect from Ferranti Atlas)
communicate with the Supervisor. Other UK machines of the era, such as the Ferranti Orion, had similar mechanisms for calling on the services of their operating...
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III, the Brookhaven National Laboratory Merlin, the Philco CXPQ, the Ferranti Orion, the Telefunken Rechner TR 440, the ICT 1301, and many other early transistor-based...
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The Ferranti Blue Fox was a British multi-role airborne radar designed and built for the Royal Navy by Ferranti Defence Systems in the late 1970s. It...
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