Computing Services Archives

The ICL 1907 computer served the computing needs of the university from the late sixties to the middle seventies. These pictures show the 1907 computer room early in 1972; they come from a set of professional black and white prints produced for an exhibition.

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The operators' console: note the
genuine boot prints on the doors. The ICT 1933 line printer The paper tape reader

A row of 7 track 550bpi magnetic tape decks Engineers at work behind the disc drives The PF56 disc controller

Inside one of the processor
boxes; the 1907 had 96k words of memory, or 288k bytes Peter Mason at work on the Micro 16S front-end processor Graham Bailey of Applied Maths punching cards on the landing of floor 7 of the Hicks Building

The 1907 computer room in about 1974: a set of professional colour slides used as a presentation to new students.

A general view of the computer room, showing Irene, Tim, Mike and Alan, with John Jordan at the far end Alan Ibbotson at the operators' console The paper tape readers

A modem Another modem The Calcomp graph plotter

Tim Ingman pushing buttons
inside the processor box Inside another processor box And another

And another A roomful of 30Mb drives Changing a 30Mb disc pack

Peter Mason working on the
Micro 16V front-end processor Jeff Martin operating the Modular One (the link to Manchester University) A user, possibly Martin Grayson of Chemistry, operating an unidentified machine

A user punching cards

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The operators' console: note the genuine boot prints on the doors.	The ICT 1933 line printer	The paper tape reader

A row of 7 track 550bpi magnetic tape decks	Engineers at work behind the disc drives	The PF56 disc controller

Inside one of the processor boxes; the 1907 had 96k words of memory, or 288k bytes	Peter Mason at work on the Micro 16S front-end processor	Graham Bailey of Applied Maths punching cards on the landing of floor 7 of the Hicks Building


A general view of the computer room, showing Irene, Tim, Mike and Alan, with John Jordan at the far end	Alan Ibbotson at the operators' console	The paper tape readers

A modem	Another modem	The Calcomp graph plotter

Tim Ingman pushing buttons inside the processor box	Inside another processor box	And another

And another	A roomful of 30Mb drives	Changing a 30Mb disc pack

Peter Mason working on the Micro 16V front-end processor	Jeff Martin operating the Modular One (the link to Manchester University)	A user, possibly Martin Grayson of Chemistry, operating an unidentified machine

A user punching cards