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Foreword On June 21st 1948 Tom Kilburn ran a program on the first electronically stored program computer in the world. Freddy Williams and Tom had been struggling for some time to make their cathode ray tube store work. Demonstrating the store was the key thing, for without a store the computer as we know it today could never be. This simple machine, always known as the 'BABY', was developed into the Ferranti Mark 1, the first computer to go on commercial sale anywhere in the world. Tom's program was the first program to be written and run. Some of us here in Manchester felt that the fiftieth anniversary of such stupendous achievements should not go unnoticed. So at 11 a.m. on June 21st 1998, fifty years to the dot later, Tom ran that same program again on a reconstructed BABY that had earlier been ceremonially switched on by the widow of Freddy Williams. A team of enthusiasts, almost all members or retired members of ICL, researched the design and built the machine from genuine 1940s components. This would not have been possible without the usual ICL drive and enthusiasm, typified at the personal level by Chris Burton (ex- ICL West Gorton) who led the team, and marked at the corporate level by sponsorship of the project. Anyone interested can now see BABY at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. Tom Kilburn says that it looks exactly like the original - except that it's cleaner. I mention this story because it illustrates vividly what has happened to our industry over fifty years. -
Berk Advisory Team Turf - Healthy Turf - Has Been Bert Lock's Life
Everything for turf treatment comes from Berk -including FREE expert advice Berk advisory team Turf - healthy turf - has been Bert Lock's life. He was head groundsman at The Oval for more than twenty years. Now he leads a unique Berk FREE advisory service that solves many problems that the groundsman or greenkeeper can come up against. Either personally or through his team of highly quali- fied turf specialists he can help you to use the comprehensive range of Berk turf treatments to full advantage. Take a look Berk comprehensive turf treatments IF THIS IS YOUR PROBLEM BERK HAVE THE ANSWER Application Rate Timing Mixing Wormkilling 25% Chlordane Worm Killer 1 gallon per 1000 sq. yds. Apply in warm showery 1 gallon in 20 (liquid) weather. Spring and Summer gallons of water when worms are most active 20% Chlordane Worm Killer 80 lbs. per acre Apply in warm showery (granular) weather. Spring and Summer - when worms are most active Feeding - Berk Spring/Summer Fine 5 cwts per acre. 2 ozs. March-August Turf Feed per sq. yd. Berk Spring/Summer Granular 3 cwts per acre March-August - Fertilizer for Outfields Weedkillmg Berk Weed Killer 2-3 fluid ozs. per Warm dry weather during Half gallon of water (Standard) 2.4D 100 sq. yds. Spring or Summer per 100 sq. yds. Berk Weed Killer 4-6 fluid ozs. per Warm dry weather during Half gallon of water (Super) 2.4D + CMPP 100 sq. yds. Spring or Summer per 100 sq. yds. Berk Clover Killer 6-8 pints per acre April-September 20-50 gallons of CMPP water per acre Moss Control Berk Mercurized Turf Sand 4 ozs. -
The Virtual Wisdener
No 33: March 7 2021. The Virtual Wisdener The Newsletter of the Wisden Collectors’ Club It seems my comments in the last VW It is wonderful that there is a ‘road map’ out of the current pandemic and were met with almost unanimous with the 2021 Wisden out next month and the English county season about to start, things are feeling posiPve and brighter. approval and a7er this mornings fourth My promise remains the same as it has been since last March -20% off all Test defeat (inside three days) I have come Wisdens (but not the 2021) unPl we are out of this. Click here to the conclusion that I could not care less to be asked. what happens to the England team - Unpatrioc, shameless, disgraceful - yes I know and so am I. This week the government announced an extra £300m of funding for sport and according to the ECB cricket I am fed up to the back teeth of excuse a<er excuse, was in line for a good slice of that, why?? bang collapse a<er bang collapse, bowlers who ‘lack confidence,’ and those who come home a<er two Cricket, sadly, is no longer the summer sport. Football hours of ‘really hard running around’ because they is a twelve month sport, Rugby League over the course need a rest - I am done with England. I will not be of a season aNracts more fans (when allowed) than cheering on any one who plays against England, nor cricket and Horse Racing, Formula 1 and Golf generate will I be sending back my passport (so unused it has more local revenue and each individual sport employs developed an inferiority complex) to Boris nor will I be more people, both directly and indirectly than the game of cricket…so why is cricket given extra funding? giving up on the cricket that maNers to me, county cricket, but England, no, good riddance, This is not simply about England failing to come to I am a Wisden man. -
T. PARKER & SONS (Turf Management)
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February 1976
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