Coronation St Live episode

Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:07:25 +0000, bugbear
wrote:

bugbear wrote:
Peter Duncanson wrote:

I was working at Manchester University in the early 1960s (on the Atlas
computer).

I (for one) am impressed by that.

Did you know the (recently deceased) Prof. Wilkes?

I didn't ever meet him. He was at Cambridge University.

I knew of him of course.


Sorry - brain fuddle between EDSAC and Atlas.

BugBear

On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:59:38 +0000, bugbear
wrote:

Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:07:25 +0000, bugbear
wrote:

bugbear wrote:
Peter Duncanson wrote:

I was working at Manchester University in the early 1960s (on the Atlas
computer).

I (for one) am impressed by that.

Did you know the (recently deceased) Prof. Wilkes?

I didn't ever meet him. He was at Cambridge University.

I knew of him of course.


Sorry - brain fuddle between EDSAC and Atlas.

No problem. I did see EDSAC 2 in 1959. I was in the RAF maintaining
airborne radar and navigation electronics. The RAF organised a visit to
see EDSAC 2 for some of us who were about to leave the service. The idea
was to show us part of the outside world where our skills could be used.
It worked - I started in computer maintenance at Ferranti in Manchester
a couple of months later.

Anyway, the EDSAC 2 had a CRT visual display unit. While we were there
it was showing a demonstration in which an aircraft was flying across
the screen and a gun was firing at it. This was not human controlled,
just random numbers. However, I did ask the guy who was showing us round
what would happen if the shell hit the plane. "Oh, it never happens"
said he. Well, it did a few minutes later. The aircraft exploded. The
graphics were primitive. The gun, plane and shell were blobs with a hint
of shape.

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

? I'll take another look with all that in mind.
I do know all the elements of the Quay St site you mentioned from the time
when I used to visit most weekday mornings in the mid '80s. All with the
exception of Stage 2, I don't think that yet existed.

My last visit was, I suppose, the early '90s to install a couple of PCs
for BT line bookings.

Hmm would that be for Leonardo ?? Line Bookings If they were Compaq PCs
there still there

Lynda Capper is still there doing Lines & NCR where the other would have
been is closed but muggins here has to wind it up every now and again.

Dave

"Dave H" wrote in message ...
? I'll take another look with all that in mind.
I do know all the elements of the Quay St site you mentioned from the time
when I used to visit most weekday mornings in the mid '80s. All with the exception of Stage 2, I don't think that yet existed.

My last visit was, I suppose, the early '90s to install a couple of PCs for BT line bookings.

Hmm would that be for Leonardo ?? Line Bookings If they were Compaq PCs there still there

Lynda Capper is still there doing Lines & NCR where the other would have been is closed but muggins here has to wind it up every
now and again.

Dave

Yes, Leonardo, I was trying hard to remember what the system was called.
Compaq sounds about right, they must have been running Windows 3.1 There was a lock and key on the floppy drives to satisfy BTs
paranoia. As you say one in NCR and
the other in an admin office in the TVC.

Before that I used to maintain the domestic monitors on the MDS
--
Graham.

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