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Fri 05 May 2009Sweet start for Irish computing
The Irish Sugar Company’s first computer in 1957 cost £33,000, when a clerk’s annual pay was £300, writes KARLIN LILLINGTON
THEY ARE companies lost in the mists of computing history: the British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM), Univac, Burroughs, Powers-Samas, Ferranti, Leo Computers, Marconi, Elliot, CDC, GEC. But they live on in the memory of Gordon Clarke, one of the first two representatives of BTM in Ireland in the 1950s.
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