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Family member's pages
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Where we used to live
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 Verna's daughter Alex is now married
Verna's Silver Buzz Cafe blog
Penny's page
Toby's
page
Sinkyone
the Dog's home page
Sinkyone's Favorite Books
Did Sinkyone dream of electric
sheep?
Tony & Naomi's
home page
John's Jazz Page (Leon's brother-in-law)
"Grandma" Marie Laming is a Jose Carreras fan and a fundraiser for
his International
Leukaemia Foundation
Golden Star
Home, where Verna's Dad lived.
Leon & Verna's
Wedding Site
Leon & Verna's Wedding
Album
Queen
Mary 2 arriving in San Francisco for the first time
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Where we were educated
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Where we work
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Early Computers
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- Dad had his first encounter with a computer in 1961 on a school
trip to a local aircraft design office. He built an analog computer
for a school project in 1963. These are some of the early computers
he worked with, or on:
- Ferranti Argus
at Southampton University in 1962.
- English Electric KDF-9
at Keele University in 1964.
- AEI
1010 at Associated Electrical Industries in 1965.
- Elliott
803B at UCNW Bangor in 1966 - About 250 were built. Only three
survive, one at the Science Museum , London.
- Elliott 4130
at UCNW Bangor in 1968.
- DEC PDP-7,
PDP-8
and PDP-9
at Time Sharing Limited in 1969 (also accessed from home via a
100 Baud modem!).
- DEC PDP-10
and KA-10 at Time Sharing Limited in 1970-72 (also accessed from
home via a 200 Baud modem!).
- IBM System/360
at Unilever (while at Time Sharing Limited) in 1970.
- CDC 6600
at Control Data Sciences (while at Time Sharing Limited) in 1971.
- ICL System
4 (an English Electric version of the RCA Spectra) at International
Computers Limited in 1973-76.
- ICL 1900
Series at ICL in 1973-76.
- ICL 2900
(2970, 2960 and 2980)
at International Computers Limited in 1974-1983.
- ICL Content
Addressable Filesystem (CAFS) at International Computers Limited
in 1975.
- ICL/Singer
System 10 at International Computers Limited in 1976 (documented
by my college friend David Brooks).
- ICL Distributed
Array Processor (MIL/DAP) at International Computers Limited
in 1979.
- Tandem NonStop
1 while at International Computers Limited in 1980.
- Cray Cray-1
while at International Computers Limited in 1980.
- ICL Perq
at International Computers Limited in 1981.
- ICL Personal
Computer (RAIR Black Box) at International Computers Limited
and home in 1981 (Dad's first real PC).
- ICL ME29
at International Computers Limited in 1981.
- Cray X-MP
while at International Computers Limited in 1982.
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- "Grandad" Czeslaw Guzenda was on the Polish destroyer ORP "Blyskawica"
during WWII. I've gathered a set of links about the ship on this page.
There are photos of the ship being launched, during WWII and as it
is today. I'm also working on a timeline of the ship's history.
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Carisbrooke Grammar School "Class of 1958" 50th Reunion
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