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Newsletter for those who worked on Manchester Mark I computers. April 1994. A4 typed and stapled 8-page Newsletter, plus a loose A4 sheet containing addresses of the Ferranti set (not guaranteed, but believed correct). The sheet has addresses for 21 couples who attended the April 1993 Reunion, plus 14 other former Ferranti people who were connected with the Mark I computer. The newsletter, edited and issued by Olaf Chedzoy, contains contributions from several former Tin Hut team members. This is the first of the three Stroke E newsletters to have been issued.

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Joan and John Travis PapersNAHC/JTP

Biographical Note on Joan TravisNAHC/JTP/1

Joan Travis CVsNAHC/JTP/2

The Manchester Universal Electronic Computer. Ferranti programmers’ Reunion at Cordon Mill, Somerset. 21st April 1993. BookletNAHC/JTP/3

Stroke ENAHC/JTP/4

Stroke ENAHC/JTP/5

Stroke ENAHC/JTP/6

Correspondence and Papers re 1993 reunion and newslettersNAHC/JTP/7

Letter and contact-list from John Woodgate, relevant to a Ferranti London Computer Laboratory ReunionNAHC/JTP/8

Correspondence relating to Ferranti ComputingNAHC/JTP/9

C H Devonald’s early suggestion for an instruction set for the Ferranti FPC/1 computer, later named Pegasus.NAHC/JTP/10

John Travis' Engineering NotebookNAHC/JTP/11

Miscellaneous notes and single-sheet guides.NAHC/JTP/12

Lists of Ferranti Lily Hill employeesNAHC/JTP/13

Correspondence between Joan Travis and John GoslingNAHC/JTP/14

E-mail exchanges between Simon Lavington and Joan TravisNAHC/JTP/15

Obituaries and funeral noticesNAHC/JTP/16

Ferranti/ICT/ICL official correspondence and memos regarding employment contracts, take-overs and share information and computer orders (sales).NAHC/JTP/17

50th Anniversary of the first stored-program computer, the Baby or Small-scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) documentsNAHC/JTP/18

Miscellaneous early papers of the Computer Conservation Society,NAHC/JTP/19

Miscellaneous papers on computer history.NAHC/JTP/20

A History of Manchester Computers. Simon LavingtonNAHC/JTP/21

PhotographsNAHC/JTP/22

Colour photo of 33 participants at the Ferranti Tin Hut reunion held on 21st April 1993NAHC/JTP/23

PhotographsNAHC/JTP/24

Group photo of Ferranti’s London Computer Lab staff, summer 1956, with an accompanying partial name list.NAHC/JTP/25

CuttingNAHC/JTP/26

PhotographsNAHC/JTP/27

PhotographNAHC/JTP/28