Monthly Archives: August 2022

Elliott 405 – basic principles

This selection from ‘Big Doug’ Selway’s trove of documents on the 1950s Elliott 405 mainframe computer takes us right back to the basics. First up is a ‘functional block diagram’ of the system. And what I find interesting about this is: How basic it is. Computers were really quite crude beasts back then. How it was felt you needed to… Read more »