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Old 25th Nov 2020, 8:03 pm   #87
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Default Re: Would we have got to the moon with no semiconductors?

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Originally Posted by rontech View Post
Elliot was associated with GEC and I think some of the process operators went down to Borehamwood on training courses.
Elliott Brothers - my late father worked for them at a small site on the old Croydon aerodrome in the first few years after WWII, where they were developing some of the early flight-simulators for jet aircraft.

Later became Elliott Automation, then GEC-Elliott Process Control. Their real-time/military computing stuff was spun-out as a separate company (Marconi-Elliott) after Elliott was swallowed-up by ICT [which then became ICL]


Elliott had its own semiconductor manufacturing facility in Scotland at one time.
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