Old Tech thread

[farntfar]

And the caption read:

Sally had no worries as Timmy fixed the car.
Even engine oil would be wiped clean away
off that white shirt with new blue Dazitoff.

 

[dask]

 

[dask]

Somewhere between 1969 - 1972.

 

[mosaix]

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Somewhere between 1969 - 1972.

PDP 11 or 12?

 

[dask]

PDP 11 or 12?

 

[psikeyhackr]

I needed 3 of those in my apartment building because the bathtubs were so small.

 

[Pyan]

BBC Skelton main shortwave transmitter halls, Sender 61 and Sender 72, c.1975. These pumped out the BBC World Service around the globe, and I'm very proud to say my Dad was an SME (Senior Maintenance Engineer) here until he retired (at 55! Final salary pension!) in 1983.

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The first transmitter to go on air in the June of 1943 was OSE 8 (known throughout the BBC as "Ossie Eight") and short for Overseas Station Extension of Daventry number eight.
This station had six 'Senders', numbers 61 to 66 and each of 100 kilowatts power output. All were of Marconi design similar to those at Rampisham and installed so that they could be switched to any of sixteen aerials all beamed on Europe.
The second station OSE 9 followed on the air with six ST & C designed 'Senders'(71A & B to 76A & B). These were different in that they could each transmit a programme on two channels at once if required to do so which in fact was most ofthe time. A slightly more complex aerial system was installed for OSE 9 as most ofthe programmes transmitted from it were destined for parts of the world beyond Europe.

Skelton, Penrith and the World 1943 - 1993

 

[dask]

Apologies if this has been posted already:

 

[Pyan]

Before air conditioning - this is an eighteenth-century fan chair, designed and built in 1786. As you rock back and forth on it, a mechanism waggles the fan to-and-fro, to keep you cool...

 

[Pyan]

Apologies if this has been posted already:
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The Imsai 8080 starred in the film WarGames (1983). Used by a young Matthew Broderick to hack into the NORAD main computer, WOPR.

 

[farntfar]

Before air conditioning - this is an eighteenth-century fan chair, designed and built in 1786. As you rock back and forth on it, a mechanism waggles the fan to-and-fro, to keep you cool...

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And if you don't keep up with the payments the fan doubles a a blade and guillotines you as you rock.

 

[Parson]

And if you don't keep up with the payments the fan doubles a a blade and guillotines you as you rock.

Or, it slaps you upside the head to help you remember who's boss.

 

[Cthulhu.Science]

 

[Cthulhu.Science]

 

[dask]

 

[Vertigo]

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I tripped and dropped my entire program once, took ages to get it all back in order. and then there were the 'patch' ones with perforated slots you could manually 'punch' out that would regularly drop unintended slots. I'm so glad those days are lost and (almost) forgotten! This would have been a little later than that, around early '70s, but us spotty undergrads weren't given access to the more modern kit!

 

[farntfar]

Yes. Dropping a program of 4000 odd cards could be a pain to resort, even if you generally put a count in the last 4 columns.
I remember it well.

 

[mosaix]

I tripped and dropped my entire program once, took ages to get it all back in order.

A colleague of mine put a program deck wrapped in rubber bands on the roof of his MGB whilst he unlocked the door, got in and drove off! He looked in his mirror and saw it blowing up against a wire mesh fence.

 

[Pyan]

Not quite the same, but I once saw a librarian pull out one of those long index filecard drawers they used to have for the book catalogue - and pulled it right out, so it dumped about 500 alphabeticised cards in a heap on the floor. Never heard that word used in a library, before or since...

 

[Pyan]