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APEXC

The APE(X)C, or All Purpose Electronic (X) Computer, is a series of stored-program electronic computers that were designed by Andrew Donald Booth and built with the close collaboration of his wife Kathleen Booth at Birkbeck College, University of London, in the early 1950s. Sponsored in part by the British Rayon Research Association (BRRA), the project produced several machines in the early to mid-1950s and provided the design basis for the commercially manufactured Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC) series, an early British production-scale computer line that ran into the late 1950s and evolved into the ICT 1200 series. Booth maintained that the "X" in the name stood for "X-company", referring to an unnamed sponsor.

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The APE(X)C, or All Purpose Electronic (X) Computer, is a series of stored-program electronic computers that were designed by Andrew Donald Booth and built with the close collaboration of his wife Kathleen Booth at Birkbeck College, University of London, in the early 1950s. Sponsored in part by the British Rayon Research Association (BRRA), the project produced several machines in the early to mid-1950s and provided the design basis for the commercially manufactured Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC) series, an early British production-scale computer line that ran into the late 1950s and evolved into the ICT 1200 series. Booth maintained that the "X" in the name stood for "X-company", referring to an unnamed sponsor.

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  1. publication date: 1958 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the publication date is "1958". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369603516

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