Computer Weekly@50: What was happening in IT in April over the years

In these days of micro-integrated circuitry and third generation computers with running speeds of less than one microsecond per byte, a machine composed of 7,000 thermionic valves and containing half a ton of mercury in its store  is as far removed from a modern computer as a Model T Ford is from a present day Maserati.

The National Museum of Computing has also provided us with full hi-res scans of the pages in this gallery. You can read all the articles featured by downloading the PDF >>