Sebastian Zian de Ferranti and Tom Kilburn examine the control panel of the Atlas computer
Colourised photo of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Ziani_de_Ferranti (left) and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Kilburn (right) examining the control panel of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(computer)
Also pictured seating (left to right) Pat Gaskell, Carol Clegg and Patsy Rouse.
On display in the Kilburn building, Manchester en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Computer_Science,_University_of_Manchester thanks to a fantastic project led by Jim Miles en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_John_Miles and Steve Mccann
As for the date, Atlas ran between 1962 and 1971. The fact that Sebastian de Ferranti is the picture would strongly suggest early in that period. He was at the inauguration on 7th December 1971 and it may have been then, or sometime afterwards, it was probably taken by Ferranti for marketing purposes and so it would have been early in the life of the machine. The last Atlas 1 was commissioned in 1964 so 1963 would be a reasonable guess. The teletype on the desk immediately right of the console is on the commissioning picture but not the decommissioning one, though that doesn’t really narrow it down a lot.
Sebastian Zian de Ferranti and Tom Kilburn examine the control panel of the Atlas computer
Colourised photo of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Ziani_de_Ferranti (left) and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Kilburn (right) examining the control panel of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(computer)
Also pictured seating (left to right) Pat Gaskell, Carol Clegg and Patsy Rouse.
On display in the Kilburn building, Manchester en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Computer_Science,_University_of_Manchester thanks to a fantastic project led by Jim Miles en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_John_Miles and Steve Mccann
As for the date, Atlas ran between 1962 and 1971. The fact that Sebastian de Ferranti is the picture would strongly suggest early in that period. He was at the inauguration on 7th December 1971 and it may have been then, or sometime afterwards, it was probably taken by Ferranti for marketing purposes and so it would have been early in the life of the machine. The last Atlas 1 was commissioned in 1964 so 1963 would be a reasonable guess. The teletype on the desk immediately right of the console is on the commissioning picture but not the decommissioning one, though that doesn’t really narrow it down a lot.