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<div class="">Here’s an announcement for the next Computer Conservation Society Zoom lecture - which you’ll see is open to all.</div>
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<span class="">The next meeting of the Computer Conservation Society for the 2020/21 season is on Thursday 19<sup class="">th</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>November via Zoom. The lecture will begin at 2.30PM with the Zoom session opening
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<span class="">Our October meeting was attended by a record breaking 155 people. Our meetings are open to all free of charge so do pass on this invitation to others who may be interested in this meeting or other CCS activities.</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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The title of the meeting is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">The Origins of GENESYS, the General Engineering System</b>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Our speaker will be Brian Shearing. GENESYS, the GENeral Engineering
SYStem, was commissioned by the Ministry of Public Building and Works in 1968. It was a way of writing and using engineering software that worked, without change, across all major mainframes of the day, something that unfortunately could not be said for software
written in the various dialects of FORTRAN available then. The ministry also commissioned the establishment of the GENESYS Centre which opened in 1972 and was charged with promoting, teaching, developing and expanding the applications that ran under the system.
The speaker was chief programmer of the team that built the central system. The seminar is the first of two, the second being next season, and explores what the system was like, what its influences were and how it came to be commissioned. The story begins
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Brian wrote his first program for a Ferranti Sirius computer in 1961, and he has never quite got over the excitement. His primary interests have always been compilers and operating systems, and he has written several of each. The compiler for GENTRAN, the programming
language at the heart of GENESYS, was his first or as will become clear during the seminar, his first and second. His latest is for a novel concurrent programming language, still under development. As a software design consultant he has worked on trading systems,
medical systems, and programs for highway design. He has lectured in Europe and the Americas, has had twelve papers published, and was on the Editorial Board of the John Wiley Journal, Software Practice and Experience for more than twenty years. He has given
many talks to BCS branches, specialist groups and conferences, was Chairman of the Fortran Specialist Group for three years, has served on the Society's Technical Board, has represented it on BSI Programming Languages Committee IST/13, and was a member of
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<b class=""><span class="">Please pre-register for the event.</span></b><span class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> To do so, follow this link<a href="http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/lectures/current/lecture.htm" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/lectures/current/lecture.htm</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">click
on the “Book” symbol</b>. All registrants will be notified of the URL for the Zoom link in advance of the meeting.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="">The programme for the 2020/21 season will be found at<a href="http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/lectures/current/lecture.htm" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/lectures/current/lecture.htm</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<b class=""><span class="">The National Museum of Computing</span></b><span class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>have informed us of their new programme of online talks. These are free to TNMoC supporters and volunteers and £10.00 each otherwise. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="">To book to attend, follow the link<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.tnmoc.org/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">www.tnmoc.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and
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<span class="">12 November - Dr Ted Coles - Talk on Tunny & Colossus<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="">15 November - Dr Andrew Herbert - Talk on EDSAC<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="">30 November - Jerry McCarthy - Talk on the Polish Cryptomachine LACIDA<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="">4 December - Peter Onion - Talk on Code 1960’s Back water<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="">13 December - Peter Shiret - Talk on Mobile Network Evolution 1G -4G<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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