Command and Control: the Cold War Origins of TOPS, British Railways First Computer Based Train Operating System

Jonathan Aylen; Bob Gwynne

Command and Control: the Cold War Origins of TOPS, British Railways First Computer Based Train Operating System

Jonathan Aylen, Bob Gwynne

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Abstract

British Rail's adoption of a computer-based train operating system in the mid-1970's sheds light on the design of early military command and control computer systems and the subsequent evolution of the internet

Original language	English
Pages	1-20
Number of pages	19
Volume	24
No.	2
Specialist publication	Transmission Lines
Publisher	Defence Electronics History Society
Publication status	Published - Jun 2019

Keywords

Circuit Switching, Packet Switching, SAGE, Cape Cod Experiment, Chain Home, TOPS, British Rail, IBM

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