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Photos: Britain's first business computer
The Elliott 803 - and its whopping 4KB of memory...

By Andy McCue

Published: Friday 05 September 2008

Kevin Murrell, trustee at the National Museum of Computing, told silicon.com: "Most big companies that were computerised had an Elliott machine."

Generally all the work for the computer would be set up on paper tape, as seen here.

Photo Credit: Andy McCue/silicon.com