This photo, according to a government document County Norfolk, UK, is a photo of the city of Norwich accepting delivery of its first computer, an Elliott 405, a computer manufactured by Elliott Brothers, a British company now defunct .
This 1957 article in The New Scientist describes it as the first municipal computer in the UK. The author, JW Cox, an employee of Elliott Brothers, says the Elliott 405 was specially designed for statistical and accounting purposes.
Stores data up to 300 meters magnetic film.
Certainly the world has evolved a lot since technologically ...
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