Roger Broughton's Home Page

A mixed bag of things crudely put together, feedback welcomed.

This link comes first because a couple of dozen people access it weekly Regent Bridge Club scores and I don't want them to have to churn through the rest to find how they have done.
There is information about the club Here.

This website is created by Roger Broughton using simple text editors like MicroSoft NOTEPAD and the UNIX Visual editor VI.

It should download quickly even over a slow dial-up connection.
Where there are pictures the idea is to show a thumbnail (30KByte),
which when clicked on will download a normal size picture (100KByte),
which when clicked on will download the fullsize picture (1MByte).

I think the most valuable part of this website is A Virtual Museum of Computing Artefacts is under construction here.
It is really about mainframe computers but does refer to more modern computers for comparisons.

The mainframe computers were:

• 1957-1969 12yrs Ferranti Pegasus.
• 1961-1969 8yrs English Electric KDF9.
• 1967-1980 13yrs IBM 360 Model 67.
• 1975-1986 11yrs IBM 370 Model 168.
• 1985-1992 7yrs Amdahl 5860.

Here are some old photos of mine that include photographs of the mainframe computers and old ones of Rod Walker's leaving do taken by Terry Betteridge on 27th September 1985.

My recollections of visiting him are HERE.

Photographs of computing service in Claremont Tower in 1986.

This is a snapshot of the Newcastle University computing service in 1994.

Here are some more old photographs dating from 1992 and 1997.

Here are photographs for friends, it saves emailing them as attachments.

The big Lunch was on July 19th 2009.
We had a Big Lunch here in Seaton Burn, the photos are here Blagdon Terrace Big Lunch 2009,

The Labtrip was a getting together, team bonding exercise.

LabTrip10, LabTrip09, LabTrip08 , LabTrip07, LabTrip06, LabTrip05, LabTrip03, LabTrip02.

My mother died on the 21st March 1997
Amongst her belongings were some writings about caring for elderly people.

There is a blog here of our newhouse. Started in 2004, groundworks 2005, built and moved in 2006.

This is a photographic survey of the Reivers Cycle Route when it had artificial barriers to deter offroaders that also deterred cyclists.

There is information here about the families of Roger Broughton and Margie Craig.