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Ferranti-Packard Read Amplifier
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2010.1.21Description
This is read amplifier manufactured by Ferranti-Packard company, in or after 1958. This type of module was commonly used by Ferranti engineers in the mid 1950s (and after it merged to become Ferranti-Packard in 1958) for various electronic computing projects.- Stachniak, Zbigniew, and Scott Campbell. Computing in Canada: Building a Digital Future. Transformations 17. Ottawa: Canada Science and Technology Museum, 2009, p. 24,27.
- Ball, Norman R., and John N. Vardalas. Ferranti-Packard: Pioneers in Canadian Electrical Manufacturing. McGill-Queen’s Press - MQUP, 1994.
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circuitry components (describes)Related people
Systems Design Undergraduate Lab (was donor of)Kina Kim (is documentarian of)
Scott Campbell (is documentarian of)