@kdfrawg Yep. We printed out the temperatures of all the thermocouples in the reactor (on that green stripy paper), carried it back to the office, typed all the numbers into our computer, calculated the appropriate alarm settings using a language designed for handling personnel records, then printed the output to punched tape, carried it back down to the control room and fed it into the computer that ran the alarm system.
// @matigo @jextxadore
@kdfrawg When I started work, in 1983, I think we had 10 MB Winchester drives. They, with the rest of the computer equipment lived in a climate controlled room. The high tech stuff was for personnel records, but we did some calculations on it (in a language that really wasn’t intended to be used for calculations). The reactors ran on 1950s technology, so paper tape was involved.
// @matigo @jextxadore
@hazardwarning I agree. It would have saved everyone a lot of bother if he’d married her in the first place.
// @matigo @paulgit @kdfrawg
@kdfrawg Did you have to run it in a special air conditioned room?
// @matigo @jextxadore
@kdfrawg Probably the best way to carry that weight around!
// @matigo @jextxadore
@height8 And my friend’s children who ate breakfast at home and again at nursery for a couple of years before she found out.
@matigo My Nokia Communicator was expensive & died within weeks. I liked my Psion though. Till it died without warning & I had to ring up everyone I might have arranged to meet, because it lost all my appointments and was such a pain to back up that nobody ever got round to doing it.
// @jextxadore @kdfrawg