Manufacturers' Guides & Manuals
Library of Manufacturers' Guides & Manuals
The Collection posesses a substantial collection of materials to do with computers made by many manufacturers from the 1950s onwards. These include forrner British manufacturers such as Ferranti, EELM, Leo, STC - culminating in the formation and collection of ICL documents.
Also included is a large collection of contiental manufacturers like Olivetti, Bull, and Norsk Data, as well as American manufacturers like UNIVAC, IBM, RCA, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), and Honeywell.
For example, we have substantial documentation on the ICL 1900, 2900, DRS, and System 4, with the IBM documentation including System/360, System/370, System/3, Virtual Machine/X
The library benefits from a substantial donation of period documents from Alec Jackson.