Don't know but I did notice with interest that the chap on the left still has the four hands that you needed to control on SLEWC.

Gordon,

You are right - must be losing my touch!

Ian

Thanks - never saw Ash or most of the modern equuipment in real life
Cheers

Doubt if I's understand much ! Stlll my old overlays are in need of replacement & maybe they have an updated chinagraph section
Gordon

Sorry Nick - another mis-id.

Looks like an 'upper ops' room to me.

Richard

John Booth wrote on 18.04.2012 at 21:57:22:


If it is Buchan it's before the unit went operational - circa 93. I say that because Buchan had a lot more Eddies in upper ops and I never saw any 'sniffers' in my time there (93 - 98). Also, Buchan ended-up with a unique key board hard ware (around 96) - there was a shortage of spares for the original keyboards so Buchan was totally re-equipped with
'flush' keyboards so that the removed keyboards could be used as spares for Neatishead & Boulmer. This picture shows the original keyboards and 'feels' like early ICCS to me.

Richard

JB don't give away any secrets of any Future UCCS developments.  Looking at that equipment now makes me wonder how I ever qualified as an 'IC'

Awaiting incoming..

Phelpsy

John Booth wrote on 19.04.2012 at 08:29:34:


Not when I went through there in '92!

Mike

Richard Jenner wrote on 04.05.2012 at 09:48:04:

Nice one, Richard!!

I was at Saxa Vord in 1979, in the 'new' R101 ops room, when we received a visit from the group investigating what would be required in the system database that would be made available on those 2 text-driven displays. We (Dick Waters and I) talked at length about the problems involved in all the information having to be displayed on a single screen, when we had been used to several totes that everyone in an ops room could refer to, irrespective of the task s/he was carrying out or where s/he was located. Even in that new SV ops room, we had a multi-part tote that had unfortunately been etched (I mean!! ETCHED!!!) with the map and significant detail of our area, removing all possibility of future amendments without expensive intervention (a bit like the work needed to carry out changes on the first EDDIEs!!).

I am sure that Helen will agree with me that the new information system available to CAB advisers is far, far more comprehensive than the old paper-based information system that was in existence when I joined the CAB service in 1999, but not being able to have several information system folders open on an adviser's desk at one time is limiting ... as it was with the IUKADGE when first introduced (and I was the NatRep at Buchan's first Taceval post-introduction of IUKADGE!!). It didn't help that the text-based displays did not at first automatically update if the origin of the displayed data changed, leaving a controller with a false sense of security!

Ultimately, a computer display will NEVER take the place of the tote and it was always my opinion that an electronic representation of the global ops room tote was required; it's just a shame that it's only recent technology that has been able to provide the display resolution that would have given us what we really wanted .... then!!

BTW, Richard, a Mac is just a computer ... in exactly the same way as a Bentley Coupé is just a car!!!

Mike Clarke wrote on 02.05.2012 at 21:08:42:

So then, no red display probably rules out Ash.
Keyboard layout rules out Buchan
Lack of walkway on the far side rules out Neatishead

So that leaves Boulmer, although around 94/95 there wasn't a red display I think I do remember boltholing from Buchan 97/98 to Boulmer when there was one (John Fearon was the det cdr, we upset all the SFC staff by parking in their spaces, drank the bar dry on the first night and went to some lockup for a fantastic brewery tour)

Back to topic Boulmer sometime between 95 and 97...

Boothy,

Harsh banter from someone who isn't MC qualified. I found the E-3 system quite easy to use once you got the hang of it, a bit like LINUX.

It definately is Future UCCS

Phelpsy