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1970-1990, sample environments at the ILL by Alain Filhol and Eddy Lelièvre-Berna The ILL owes its undoubted success to a conjunction of favourable factors. First and foremost of course, the ILL high-

Neutrons detection at the ILL A draft history of neutron detection at the ILL is available here in French . Its content has not yet been validated and cannot be considered exact. If you wish to use or

Back to main page Top T he U nix plan The proliferation of DEC computer systems had always been highly questioned, primarily by the French. To break this monopoly a change to Unix was imposed in 1992

Back to main page Top Initially the high cost of computers inevitably lead to the requirement for a number of highly competent staff to maximise their usage. The custom-built Nicole and Carine systems

The ILL was founded in Grenoble in 1967 by France and Germany, joined a few years later by the UK. These are ILL's three Associate Countries. Today, 10 additional Scientific Member countries fund the

Main page Previous --- Top 13/1 4 --- Next O ffice automation The DiamItos icon ©1991 Diadème ingénierie and A. Filhol The computerisation of the secretariats started with a typewriter (probably the O

Main page Previous --- Top 9/14 --- Next H ead of service The Electronics Group Head engineers : (1969) Anton Axmann (initially Julich, subsequently HMI, Berlin), (1975) Winfried Drexel (ILL physicist

Main page Previous --- Top 8/14 --- Next Computation There was simultaneously a need for high performance computing for instrument simulation and ab initio calculations and personal computers for the

Main page Previous --- Top 12/1 4 --- Next DEC RT11, RSX11, TSX11 By mid-1984 most instruments were being controlled by PDP11 systems. D19 the large multi detector diffractometer was controlled by a P