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]
^ abHunt 1959.
^Reilly, Edwin D. (2003). Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 98. ISBN 1573565210.
^Gandy, Anthony (2012). The Early Computer Industry: Limitations of Scale and Scope. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 175. ISBN 9780230389106.
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