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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

14. The End of the Line

Author : Emeritus Professor Simon Lavington

Published in: Moving Targets

Publisher: Springer London

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Abstract

In the words of the hardware engineer Laurie Bental, who worked there from 1957 to 1994, ‘The demise of computing activities at Borehamwood was a long and painful process, spanning the years 1968 to 1988’ [1]. Although 1968 marked the end of Elliott-Automation Computers Ltd., the ‘long and painful process’ had actually begun 2 or 3 years earlier in the opinion of some market-oriented staff.

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Laurie Bental (2002) Letter to Simon Lavington, 20 Mar 2002
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Metadata
Title
The End of the Line
Author
Emeritus Professor Simon Lavington
Copyright Year
2011
Publisher
Springer London
Book
Moving Targets

Print ISBN: 978-1-84882-932-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-84882-933-6

Copyright Year: 2011

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-933-6_14

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