History of Manchester
1948: Williams/Kilburn Baby (700 ops/sec)
1969: MC was established. The Ferranti Atlas 1 computer, was already in use at Manchester.
1972: The present building was opened CDC 7600 was installed.
- This was the most powerful computer of the time, being about twenty times as powerful as Atlas. 12 MFlops!
- 7600 front-ended by another large computer - the ICL 1904A.