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2 unusual facts about Royal Radar Establishment


Airdrie Academy

Sir George G. Macfarlane CB, engineer, scientific administrator, public servant, Director from 1962-7 of the Royal Radar Establishment (wartime scientist working on radar), and designed the Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer (RREAC) - the first transistor digital computer

Coral 66

CORAL (Computer On-line Real-time Applications Language) is a programming language originally developed in 1964 at the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE), Malvern, UK, as a subset of JOVIAL.


Automatic Computing Engine

It was installed at the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) which soon became the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE) at Malvern and ran its first program in late 1952 or early 1953.

Philip Woodward

In the 1960s Philip Woodward's computer software team in Malvern provided the Royal Radar Establishment with the ALGOL 68R compiler, the world's first implementation of the programming language ALGOL 68, and provided the armed services with their first standard high-level programming language, Coral 66, for the small military computers of the day.


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