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◊ 2023-07-26 12:14 |
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◊ 2023-07-26 12:14 |
IMPDb![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Background vehicles: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bumper cars, or dodgems, as they're called in Blighty: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Europa Building (later known as Terminal 2) at Heathrow (1955-2010): ![]() Speaking of, dig these lovely old airport terminal interiors... ![]() ![]() ![]() Computer stuff: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Telex: ![]() ![]() Interior of the short-lived Apple Boutique - I would have loved to time-travelled back there: ![]() ![]() Construction site (I believe in connection with Terminal 1 at Heathrow?) ![]() Magazines: ![]() Piano: ![]() -- Last edit: 2023-07-26 13:32:52 |
◊ 2023-07-26 13:20 |
A snapshot in time from when newsagents had these outdoor racks - never seen now. And the shopkeepers had to franticly scurry round to take them in if it started raining .... |
◊ 2023-07-26 15:21 |
Oh yes... dsl. We have got still a few ones but they are fast disappearing like public phones. |
◊ 2023-07-26 21:23 |
Teletype Corporation model ASR-33 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ASR-33_2.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33 -- Last edit: 2023-07-26 21:24:53 |
◊ 2023-07-26 21:38 |
Computer Stuff….. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric_System_4 See thumb 2. Or IBM System 360? Be interesting to know if that was a working system or just a filmic collection of odds and ends. The paper tape in that Telex machine is either blank or has every position punched, which may be a test or just ignorance. It certainly doesn’t seem to be data! The second thumb looks a bit more realistic though. I started work in 1965, no mobile phones, no e-mail, no texts (obviously) photocopiers that worked at about 1 sheet per minute, databases held on punched cards or for accounting systems ledger cards, magnetic strips were just coming in. Electronic calculators were a novelty, and all outside phone calls from the office went via a telephonist. Internal office calls were on a push button intercom! If you needed to speak to the office on trips out, find a call box! Easy, find a working call box, hard! -- Last edit: 2023-07-26 22:39:46 |
◊ 2023-07-27 13:18 |
You've been there. Label says English Electric Computer System 4. Also stated on IMDB. Probably a product placement, the 4-50 or the mid-1968 4-70 The machines could indeed be real. Some loose cables are visible, that may be a part of the plot -- Last edit: 2023-07-27 13:19:46 |
◊ 2023-07-27 13:19 |
I know I’ve been there. I used to work for them! |
◊ 2023-07-27 13:21 |
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◊ 2023-07-29 21:38 |
"Magazines" - May 1968 issue of Car, cover photo featuring Rover 3500 V8: https://onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk/car-news-magazine-may-1968/product/HD_300875738 - unidentified issue of Autocar, cover photo featuring Mercedes-Benz sedan - May 1968 issue of Motor Sport, cover photo featuring the Ford GT40 that won the 1968 BOAC 500: https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/issues/may-1968/ "Piano" J&J Hopkinson, piano maker based in London; the style of this one looks like examples from the mid 1800s. |
◊ 2023-07-30 01:57 |
9 May 1968 ![]() |