In Memoriam: Professor Dick Grimsdale 1929-2005
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Dick was a quiet and modest man whose influence on computing and computer graphics runs deep. His early years at the University of Manchester involved him closely with the fast developing world of computer technology. Appointed to an assistant lectureship in 1951, during Tom Kilburn’s time at the helm, he moved on from improving the valve Manchester Mark II to create the world’s first transistor computer and ran the first program on it in November 1953. This machine was later made available as the MV950, believed to be the first transistor machine in commercial production. He also worked on Atlas, the most innovative computer of the era, which had most of the features later to be thought of as standard. Dick worked on the read-only memory, based on a wire mesh 8′ by 4′. This had a capacity of 8 K words of 52 bits and an access time of 100 nanoseconds. In this period too, he worked on EDSAC at Cambridge and, back at Manchester, told Alan Turing that his character-coding scheme was complex.
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- Comput. Graph. Forum
دوره 25 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2006