Very Interesting!!! 1. The console terminal is a Creed Model 75 Teleprinter ie Baudot Telex code not ASCII This may be a Bletchley Park legacy. The later electronic BP systems were designed to break teleprinter codes and hence the high speed tape readers and terminals were for telex code. You can just see the M75 reader/punch above the operators hand. 2. To the left of the operator are two high speed paper tape readers. 3. You can see the holes in the top of the desk where the tape went after the reader 4. The tape rewinder is on the corner of the other desk. 5. The two boxes on the right are the storage cases for the high speed readers or could be tape punches. 6. The row of horizontal drawers on the right of the desk are for rewound paper tapes. 7. The row of cabinets under the window is the electronics. 8. You needed a whole cabinet to hold 16K of core + PSU 9. The desk to the left appears to have some punched cards on it. But they look a bit big. 10. The drawers in the desk to the left look like card storage. 11. The desk to the left could be a punched card station but I have never seen one so am unsure. Rod Smallwood -----Original Message----- From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Dave Caroline Sent: 15 May 2007 21:02 To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: Computer stuff 1970's ish at Lucas Birmingham Gt King St ? Here's a few obscure pics from the 1970's I believe take the picture link Pertec tape drive and a box with System 90 on it? and what else http://www.archivist.info/collection/searchv8.php?srcdata=title&srcprog= searchv8.php&searchv4page=1&errlev=0&searchstr=lucas+computer+lab Any information gratefully received as a treat here is an Elliott 803 at Lucas http://www.archivist.info/collection/searchv8.php?srcdata=title&srcprog= searchv8.php&searchv4page=1&errlev=0&searchstr=lucas+elliott Dave Caroline