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□ Overview
□ Atlas computer technology (David Aspinall, 2001)
□ Atlas Computer Family (Bob Thorley, 2015)
□ Memories of Atlas Fortran (Ian Pyle, 2012)
□ My life on Atlas 1 and 2 (Brian Chapman, 2014)
□ Memories of Bernard Loach
□ The Chilton Atlas: 1963-1973 (Bob Hopgood)
□ My career in photos: 1977-1989 (Rob Witty)

Rob Witty: My career in photos 1977-1989

A collection of Dr Rob Witty's personal photos, collected over the years to document his work.

AERE and RAL (May 1977) Rutherford (April 1977) National Radiological Protection Board NRPB (April 1977) Side view of Atlas; Rob Witty's office was third window from the left, ground floor (August 1977) Rutherford (April 1977) Harwell (April 1977) Reactor Site and RL (April 1977) Reactor Site and RL (April 1977) B Mess (April 1977) Drawing board in G13 (May 1977) Room G13, Atlas Lab (May 1977) Atlas building (May 1977) Atlas building (May 1977) Atlas building from Fermi Avenue runway (May 1977) Rutherford Lab from Atlas building (May 1977) Reactor site, AERE (May 1977) National Radiological Protection Board NRPB (May 1977) General view of AERE and RL (May 1977) General view of RL from Fermi Avenue (1977)

Atlas: PDP15 (Easter 1978) FR80: PLS and 35mm camera (Easter 1978) FR80: Hardcopy camera (Easter 1978) Atlas: FR80 (Easter 1978) Atlas ICF: Prime 400 (Easter 1978) Atlas: GEC 4070 (Easter 1978) Atlas ICL 1906A: Tapes and disks (Easter 1978) Atlas ICL 1906A: Console just before shutdown (Easter 1978) Atlas ICL 1906A: Processor (Easter 1978) Atlas ICL 1906A: CPU and drums (Easter 1978) Atlas ICL 1906A: Disks (Easter 1978) Brit Jeeves and IBM 360/195 tapes (Easter 1978) ICL 1906A console (Easter 1978) Atlas ICF terminal pool Newburys and Diablo (Easter 1978) Atlas ICL 1906A: Grants and awards database (Easter 1978) Atlas ICL 1906A: Printers and readers (Easter 1978) Atlas ICL 1906A: Tapes (Easter 1978) Dual IBM 360/195 (Easter 1978) IBM 360/195 Engineer's Console (Easter 1978) Brit Jeeves and Robert Fraser with IBM 360/195 Console (Easter 1978) Atlas Telecomms Area (Easter 1978) Atlas ICL 1906A: CPU (Easter 1978) PDP-15 synthesizer (Easter 1978)

Cambridge Capability Machine (February 1978) Newcastle (February 1978) View from Newcastle Computer Laboratory (February 1978) Newcastle (February 1978) Phil Treleaven, Newcastle Computer Laboratory (February 1978) Dr Phil Treleaven, Newcastle Computer Laboratory (February 1978) Cambridge Univesity Capability Machine Mod 1 (February 1978) Dicoll Electronics Ltd equipment tag

Satellite communications aerial on top of Atlas building (Autumn 1979) Atlas extension (July/September 1979) Atlas extension (July/September 1979) Atlas extension (November 1979) Atlas extension (November 1979) Atlas extension (November 1979) Atlas extension (November 1979) Atlas extension (November 1979) IRAS aerial (Christmas 1979) IRAS aerial; probably camera shake rather than lightning! (Christmas 1979) IRAS aerial (Christmas 1979) Atlas extension (Christmas 1979) Atlas extension (December 1979) Atlas extension (Christmas 1979) Atlas extension (April/June 1980) Atlas extension: First floor (April/June 1980) Atlas extension (April/June 1980) Atlas extension: Link (April/June 1980)

Apollo at Apollo Inc, Boston (November 1980) Apollo at Apollo Inc, Boston (November 1980) Apollo at Apollo Inc, Boston (November 1980) Apollo at Apollo Inc, Boston (November 1980) View from Prudential building, Boston, USA (November 1980) Turtle, Boston Aquarium (November 1980) Gerry Stanley (Apollo) and R Vinnicombe (ICL) at Apollo Inc, Boston (November 1980) Prototype Apollo Domain at Apollo Inc, Boston (November 1980) Prototype Apollo at Apollo Inc, Boston (November 1980)

The Perq prototype: Spurtak points to disk "transit securing" screw which Brian Roen tries to get it working, Three Rivers (January 1980) Perq packet stream (Ethernet) cabling straps (and Spurtak), Three Rivers (January 1980) Perq back, Three Rivers (January 1980) Bob Spurtak with Perq showing side panels, Three Rivers, Pittsburgh (January 1980) Power supplies 3R produced monitor base top of Perq, Three Rivers (January 1980) Perq front, Three Rivers (January 1980) Perq back and side, Three Rivers (January 1980) Perq front and side empty card cage, Three Rivers (January 1980) Perq tablet and keyboard, Three Rivers (January 1980) Perq monitor display on prototype, Three Rivers (January 1980) Perq power supplies, Three Rivers (January 1980) Monitor tubes for Perq, Three Rivers (January 1980) Altos at CMU, Pittsburgh (January 1980) Alto at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (January 1980) Robert Rae of Edinburgh University amidst the Altos at CMU, Pittsburgh (January 1980) "Dover" Laser xerographic printer linked by Ethernet to Altos at CMU, Pittsburgh (January 1980) Pittsburgh (January 1980) Pittsburgh (January 1980) Pittsburgh (January 1980) Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh (January 1980) Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh (January 1980)

Charlie Portman: Perq switch on (January 1981) Charlie Portman switched on Perq for the first time (January 1981) Perq arrival: Tony Kelto, K Wood (January 1981)

Vax 750 decommissioning (November 1988) Part of Stuart Robinson (November 1988) Pyramid in RAL R1 machine room (November 1988) Sun network file servers in RAL R1 machine room (November 1988) Vax 750 decommissioning (November 1988) Vax 750 decommissioning (November 1988)

Rob Witty and Lillian Valentine (Christmas 1989) Rob Witty and Lillian Valentine (Christmas 1989) Packing up Rob Witty's office; IBM 3270 and telephone, Sun workstation on Swedish ergonomic table out of sight, special chair and desk inherited from previous Atlas man (Christmas 1989) Packing up Rob Witty's office; boxes from 1987/8 sabbatical never unpacked! (Christmas 1989)

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