Last updated 20th April 2012.
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).
[This feature of thumbnail/normal/fullsize display of photographs is exemplified
more by its absence than achievement.]
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:
The LabTrip was a getting together, team bonding exercise between the
University of Newcastle
and The University of Durham who in 1967 pooled their money to buy one big computer
rather than two small computers. In particular, it was Ewan Page's (Director at Newcastle) to provide
an interactive computing service. This interactivity meant that computer users could enter
commands on a terminal, a bit like a typewriter, and get an instant response. You take it for granted now
but in those days you gave a task for the computer in the form of a paper tape or deck of punch cards
to the computer operators and went away for lunch or do shopping or whatever. Then later in the day
or next day you got the results, just to find out what you had done wrong, correct and resubmit.
LabTrip10, LabTrip09, LabTrip08 , LabTrip07, LabTrip06, LabTrip05, LabTrip03, LabTrip02.
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,
Here are some
old photos of mine.
and old ones of Rod walker's leaving do
taken by Terry Betteridge on 27th September 1985.
My recollections of visiting him are
HERE.
My mother died on the 21st March 1997
Amongst her belongings were some writings about caring for elderly people.
Firstly, here is a TRIBUTE to her.
Then here is the writings about Maggie's Angels.
Finally here is timeline of her life.
There is a blog here of our newhouse.
There is information here about the families of Roger Broughton and Margie Craig.