Atlas: Programming the UK's first supercomputer

#1

Post by benev » Fri, Nov 06, 2015, 1:20 PM UTC

Re: Atlas: Programming the UK's first supercomputer

#2

Post by kencausey » Fri, Nov 06, 2015, 8:27 PM UTC

In the photo with Ann Moffat and her daughter is the 'table' that they are sitting at some sort of punch card setup?

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Post by dalke » Sat, Nov 07, 2015, 12:14 AM UTC

kencausey wrote: post #2

In the photo with Ann Moffat and her daughter is the 'table' that they are sitting at some sort of punch card setup?

It looks like a way to project a microfilm image onto a table top.

I followed the link and found http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/gallery/ral/slide3.htm . The bottom-right corner is this image, with the title "Scanning Lab". It's also visible, without a projected image, in the image at the top-left. ( http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/gallery/ral/orig/r02008.... )

The machine in the background appears to be a digitizer, given the image on the bottom row, center http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/gallery/ral/orig/r03354.... .

Edit: oops! I pointed to an image from the same photo session, but this Linux Voice article uses the upper-left photo at http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/gallery/ral/slide4.htm . That is, LV uses http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/gallery/ral/orig/r03357.... and not http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/gallery/ral/orig/r03356.... . Note that the Chilton Computing web site dates the images as 26.07.68.