Ferranti Perseus

Ferranti Perseus

Perseus was a vacuum tube (valve) computer built by Ferranti Ltd of Great Britain. It was a development of the Ferranti Pegasus computer for large-scale data processing.[1] Perseus, which was one of Ferranti's computer systems that included Orion and Sirius,[2] was the company's first production machine marketed towards commercial users.[3] The system used the automatic checking method.[1] Two were sold, both to overseas insurance companies in 1959.[4]

  1. ^ a b Hunt 1959.
  2. ^ Reilly, Edwin D. (2003). Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 98. ISBN 1573565210.
  3. ^ Gandy, Anthony (2012). The Early Computer Industry: Limitations of Scale and Scope. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 175. ISBN 9780230389106.
  4. ^ "Ferranti", Our Computer Heritage Project, Computer Conservation Society, Pegasus, Perseus and Sirius: Delivery List, 2010