sentences:  Now called the Atlas centre, it is home to European Space Agency's (ESA) Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC), and the Space Applications and Telecommunications (ESA ESCAT) and the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Innovations Technology Access Centre (I-TAC).From 1964 to 1971, the laboratory housed the largest of the three examples of the Ferranti Atlas 1 computer that was purchased for £2.5 million, and after which the laboratory was named.For a time, it was the fastest and most innovative of the computers available worldwide.