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Ministry of Defence: Bureau West, later Directorate of Central Computer Services:...
Catalogue reference: DEFE 36
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DEFE 36
Annual reports of the Directorate of Central Computer Services and its predecessor Bureau West.
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DEFE 36
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Defence: Bureau West, later Directorate of Central Computer Services: Annual Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
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1983-1987
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Description (What the record is about)
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Annual reports of the Directorate of Central Computer Services and its predecessor Bureau West.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Ministry of Defence, Bureau West, 1976-1984
- Ministry of Defence, Directorate of Central Computer Services, 1984-1984
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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5 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The first computer system delivered to Bureau West (BuWest) was accepted and brought into full user service in December 1976. At the end of 1983 the first (and last) Bureau West report was written.
On 1 January 1984, BuWest amalgamated with Defence Data Processing Service (Def DPS), together with the small systems capability of Defence Administrative Computer Division (DACD) 7 to create the Directorate of Central Computer Services, a powerful central facility for the exploitation of all aspects of computing and communications in the information technology area.
The directorate occupied two locations: Bureau London which consisted of offices and computer suites in the Old War Office and Metropole Buildings, and BuWest which was similarly spread between the sites at Horton Road and Le Marchant Barracks in Devizes.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5794/
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