COMPUTERS, CODING, TURING AND MANCHESTER MARK I - ALICK E. GLENNIE An important archive relating...

COMPUTERS, CODING, TURING AND MANCHESTER MARK I - ALICK E. GLENNIE An important archive of printed pamphlets, reports, annotated lecture notes and papers relating to A.E. Glennie's work on computer programming, AUTOCODE, Turing's Manchester Mark I, the Armament Research Establishment, including: Report of a Conference on High Speed Automatic Calculating Machines 22-25 June 1949, title with photographic vignette, 3 photographic plates, including a paper ('Checking a large routine') given by Alan Turing, this copy stamped 'OO143', ownership inscription of A.E. Glennie on upper cover, Cambridge, University Mathematical Laboratory with the Co-operation of the Ministry of Supply, January 1950 DODD (K.N.) AND A.E. GLENNIE. An Introduction to the Use of High-speed Automatic Digital Computing Machines. Ministry of Supply. Armament Research Establishment Memo No. 7/51. Physical Research Division, 4 plates (3 photographic), this copy number '31' of 60 copies, with Glennie's ownership inscription ('A.E. Glennie, S11, Fort Halstead, Sevenoaks') on upper cover, Ministry of Supply, July, 1951 Programmers' Handbook (2nd Edition) for the Manchester Electronic Computer Mark II [i.e. Mark I], with chapter 6 'The Calculation of functions of a single variable' contributed by Glennie', this copy stamped '00075', ownership inscription of Glennie and Bernard R. Tozer on upper cover, [1952] Supplement to the Programmers' Handbook (2nd Edition) for the Manchester Electronic Computer Mark II [i.e. Mark I], this copy stamped '00074', ownership inscription of Glennie and Bernard R. Tozer on upper cover, [1952] The A.W.R.E. Ferranti Computer. Notes for Programmers, typescript, 30 numbered pages (printed recto only), stapled upper left, ink numeral '42' from an unspecified number of copies, an ink note ('Mr. Glennie, Returned with thanks, as Mr. Street let me have his, together with some other bumph... 11/11/59'), n.d., but ?c.1952 Input and Routine Organisation for the A.W.R.E. Computer, typescript, 10 (printed recto only), minor rodent damage not touching text on a few margins, stapled upper left, n.d. The Manchester Universal Electronic Computer. Instructions in the Radix 32 Code, Moston, Computer Dept., Ferranti Ltd., September 1954 National Physical Laboratory. Automatic Digital Computation. Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the National Physical Laboratory on March 25, 26, 27 & 28, 1953, light damp-stains on covers, ownership inscription of A.E. Glennie, H.M.S.O., 1954 BERRY (F.J.) Handbook of AMOS Library Subroutines. Ministry of Supply. Armament Research Establishment. Applied mathematics & Mechanics Division. A.R.D.E. Report (B) 15/56, this copy number '19' of 200 copies, with Glennie's ownership inscription on upper cover, Ministry of Supply, August 1956 all but the fifth and sixth mentioned publisher's wrappers [GLENNIE (A.E.)] Lecture Notes. The Automatic Coding of an Electronic Computer, typescript (with the heading, date and a few corrections/amendments in ink), 15 pages (printed recto only), 14 December 1952 [for a lecture delivered at Cambridge in February 1953] [GLENNIE (A.E.)] 'Automatic Coding. In order to make coding easier, the routine AUTOCODE has been constructed...', typescript (with many corrections and additions in ink), 13 pages (printed recto only), stapled upper left, n.d.; and another variant copy, 17 pages, a few ink amendments GLENNIE (A.E.) On a Binary Decision Process for Syntax Analysis, with Some Applications' [... 'used to construct a Fortran compiler for the STRETCH computer, in the absence of that machine...], 13 pages (printed on recto only), with manuscript annotations, stapled upper left, [c.1960] GLENNIE (A.E) Notes for a Lecture a the University of Leeds. 16.11.60. Compilers for Phrase Structure Language, typescript, 11 pages (printed on recto only), with several textual corrections in ink, and Glennie's inscription upper left, stapled upper left, 4to and small folio; together with 10 manuscript sheets of notes relating to Glennie's career, computing etc. from 1990s, (probably in hand of Glennie) on acetate; 2 printed papers on computer programming at Cambridge and Manchester in 1940/50s by Martin Campbell-Kelly, and 3 typed letters signed by Professor E. Knuth to Glennie with Glennie's carbon copy replies, 1970s (small quantity) Footnotes: A collection of important papers and lecture notes relating to the work of pioneering British computer scientist Alick E. Glennie, who developed Autocode and worked alongside Alan Turing at Manchester University, contributing a chapter to the second edition of Turing's Programmers' Handbook for Manchester Electronic Computer Mark II, 'the world's first computer programming manual' (Jack Copeland/Jason Long, British Library Sound and Vision Blog, 2016). Joining the Scientific Civil Service in 1949 Glennie was in December of that year seconded by the Armaments Research Establishment to work at the University of Cambridge on EDSAC computer, after which from 1951 to 1954 he was seconded to University of Manchester. 'In mid-1951, with the installation of the production Mark I, the Computing Machine Laboratory began to attract many outside users. The first of these were A.E. Glennie and K.N. Dodd of the Armaments Research Establishment. They... brought with them something of the Cambridge approach to programming. Glennie... made very interesting contributions to programming system development, in particular an early compiler' (Martin Campbell-Kelly, 'Programming the Mark I: Early Programming at the University of Manchester', in Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 2, No. 2., April 1980). Provenance: Alick E. Glennie (1925–2003); thence by descent to the present owner. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing