Editing APEXC (section)

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The '''APE(X)C''', or  '''All Purpose Electronic (X) Computer'''  series was designed by [[Andrew Donald Booth]] at [[Birkbeck, University of London|Birkbeck College]], [[London]] in the early 1950s. His work on the APE(X)C series was sponsored by the [[British Rayon Research Association]].<ref>The British computer industry: crisis and development By Tim Kelly, page 41</ref><ref name="earlybrit">Early British computers, Simon Hugh Lavington 1980</ref> Although the naming conventions are slightly unclear, it seems the first model belonged to the BRRA.<ref name="histcomp">History of Computing:Learning from the Past, Arthur Tatnall Springer, 2010</ref> According to Booth, the X stood for X-company.<ref>Book 495 in Origins of cyberspace: a library on the history of computing, Diana H. Hook, [[Jeremy M. Norman]], Michael R. Williams. Norman Publishing, 2002</ref>

One of the series was also known as the APE(X)C or '''All Purpose Electronic X-Ray Computer''' and was sited at Birkbeck.