Re: X Servers for win32 & telnet logins

["Ian Wright" <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

----- Original Message -----
From: C J Lamb <c.lamb [at] sheffield.ac.uk>
>
> > Yes, but do you remember the days of the original comuter in the Hicks
> > building - took up most of one floor (8th?) >
> I have a picture of that room on my wall, with Jeff Martin winding up
paper
> tape
> onto a spool. He was an apprentice technician at that time and he retired
> 2 months ago - shows how old the photo is. I still have  a PR1MENET manual
> somewhere...
>

Its nice to know someone was proud enough of it to bother to take the photo.
I don't suppose there is any more info on it is there - like what kind of
machine it was or such?  It was such an impressive beast with racks and
racks of glowing valves and nixie tubes everywhere that I wonder if it was
build in-house. I never got to do much with it - I don't think it was really
capable of doing much! - but, as an upper sixth student doing physics, we
were allowed to spend some time there learning about what was going to
revolutionise the world! Hard to imagine when you looked at that thing and
spent hours hand coding paper tape to solve an equation which you then
checked in your head. I wonder how many of the more recent installations
have been photographed? I know that, at work (which was the City Council),
none of the computer installations were photographed  and I doubt if there
is even any documentation remaining now. I think I probably had the last of
it in the old installation plans but all that was thrown out I believe when
I retired.

> >
> >
> > Ian
> >  p.s.  If anyone's poking around in dim corners of the computer centre
I'm
> > on the lookout for a couple of stepper motors - the kind of thing which
> > is/was used in big plotters or old fashioned taps drives etc.
> > --
>
> I'll rummage in the machine room if you want but I have a feeling that the
last
>
> cull of strange bits and pieces got rid of most of that stuff.
>
> Chris

I'd appreciate that though I realise its a long shot. The trouble is, when
you have the opportunity to acquire scrap bits and pieces, you never want
them and then when you do need them there are none left!  I don't even seem
to be able to find any scrap yards with any old computer stuff in them these
days. The kind of motors I'm looking for are/were used in all kinds of
plotters, big printers, mainframe tape drives and large disk drives.


Ian

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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK



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