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| Will_D:
--- Quote from: philf on January 04, 2016, 06:30:10 PM ---Will, Avros and ICL. Which AVRO? Woodford or Chadderton? Woodford is (was) about 5m from me and ICL the same distance in the opposite direction. I know people who have worked at both. The AVRO Heritage Museum has just opened at Woodford. I was lucky enough to get a sneak preview of the museum on the day the Vulcan gave its last fly-past. Phil. --- End quote --- Hi Phil, Avro's (1973 to 1977) was in Chadderton, but as I worked on the Woodford DO's time sheets system I used to get across town now and again. Of course the best time was the day before the airshow! Used to blag a ride on the worksd mini-bus to Woodford, have a quick meeting and then watch the Battle of Britain flight flying in and also the foreign teams who didn't know the field doing their rehersalls. And for this I got paid! ICL (aka Buttlins with computers) was in West Gorton (home of ICL mainframes) from 1977 to 1991! Btw: My ML7 came out of Woodford (legit I am assured !!) There was one upstairs gallery in Chadd that had a line of Super 7s but was not part of the training school! |
| awemawson:
"ICL (aka Buttlins with computers) was in West Gorton (home of ICL mainframes) from 1977 to 1991!" And prior to that it was Ferranti West Gorton - the early ICL machines were a different physical construction of the logic of Ferranti Argus machines. The ICL 1900 shares the same function set and op code format (XFMN)as the Argus 500 |
| philf:
--- Quote from: awemawson on January 09, 2016, 01:45:42 PM --- And prior to that it was Ferranti West Gorton - the early ICL machines were a different physical construction of the logic of Ferranti Argus machines. --- End quote --- Ferranti - another huge local company that all but disappeared. Just Googling I see that Sebastian de Ferranti died in October 2015: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11939157/Sebastian-de-Ferranti-businessman-obituary.html Other big local companies either gone or almost gone: Cravens, Avro's, Simon Carves, Mirrlees, Fairey's. All these took on large numbers of apprentices to be subjected to untold cruelty! I did a student apprenticeship and I wasn't treated too badly. (Or, if I was, I was too thick to realise!) Phil. |
| philf:
--- Quote from: John Rudd on January 03, 2016, 06:41:00 AM ---A bucket of sparks or some sky hooks were the order of the day..... --- End quote --- John, An old post I know but I was at Trafford Park, Manchester the other day and look what they've got... A mythical Sky Hook. Phil. |
| RobWilson:
Thats a canny sky hook Phil :lol: :lol: :lol: Rob |
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