I came to Australia from Scotland in 1980 to take up the position of Systems Programmer within the Computer Centre at the University of New England. This photograph, taken in “The Computer Room” around 1985/6. There are two mainframes here: along the left-hand wall, the DECsystem-20 running the TOPS-20 operating system, on the right-hand wall, the DECsystem-10, also running the TOPS-20 operating system. In the centre is a row of RP06 disk drives – each storing less than 200 Megabytes of data. In the immediate left-hand foreground is the rear of the higher capacity RP07 disk drives (500 megabytes each).
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And now……..Amazing isn’t it.
And at the left of the doorway, half hidden by the tape units, Julian at the plotter – or is it the line printer? I can’t quite remember.
They were the days, punched card and tape input. Lovely.
Hey Jon. No, that’s me with the Plotter.