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Speed trials, Saltburn 1922

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1906 Saltburn speed trials - these sands supposedly inspired Lewis Carrol to write The Walrus and the Carpenter

 

 

See http://www.britishpathe.com/video/news-in-a-nutshell-55 for a video of motorbike speed trials here in 1935

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Saltburn has a water-balance cliff lift, but originally had this way of carrying people to and from the beach:

 

 

The pier remains as the only one on the North-East coast and won 'Pier of the Year' recently. It was constructed in 1869 as a landing stage for coastal steamers to disembark passengers from Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Whitby and Scarborough. Originally 1500 feet long and illuminated by gas lighting with two kiosks at the pier head, today it is no longer a landing stage and is just under 700'.

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did that cpu a couple of pages back have a nural net processor?

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Junkman, do you know anything more about the BMW van? I love its looks.

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Duh. I half wondered, thought it looked too good to be all foreign (apologies, anyone who hasn't true bloodlines for millenia - haha) and all that stuff... I love it!

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This is the entire computer. It fits in only one room!

 

Tiddlers! back in the 60's I used to run a Honeywell 1800. We had four computers in the building, the ground floor was power supply to convert  240 volt to 120 because American. Ist floor had the computers in sealed rooms, air locks and hepa filtered air con with staff wearing dust free clothes. 2 small honeywells were used for printing the output from the 2 big ones. Printers were kept in soundproof rooms because they were deafening . 18 magnetic tape drives for the HW 1800 and the latest invention of a hard disk drive that looked like a stack of lp records. About 10 staff in each room including 2 tape librarians, plus 2 Honeywell engineering staff. A speck of dust on a mag. tape could (and often did) stop the whole thing, not to mention the electronic breakdowns !

The 1800 bit stood for memory size 1800k which stood in a cabinet about 20 feet long, 6 feet high and 2 feet deep. Sheer power!

The building was from memory about 100 yards long and 20 yards wide. Oh and the main console to run the 1800 was a real space-age looking thing with flashing lights, open it up and there was an IBM electric typewriter inside. I also forgot that data input was by punched cards or punched paper tape.

 

Honeywell 1800. 18k memory is in the cabinet along the wall on the left.

EDIT: The thing to the left with 2 square vents on the side is a printer, inside a sound quieting cabinet.

Ours were in that cabinet and also in the soundproof room, and still quite loud !

 

You can see the typewriter sticking out the top!

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That was taken outside my old house in Edinburgh. 7 Merchiston Mews which was where they were based.

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