The Great Western Railway is said to have used the Swindon DO staff to pose their resturant and buffet car shots
Martin -----Original Message----- From: Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 17 March 2024 15:44 To: [email protected] Cc: Nigel Johnson Ham <[email protected]> Subject: [cctalk] Re: DEC Processor Books One of the pictures, in the PDP8 book, I think, featured Jim Votava, my instructor on several PDP11 hardware courses at PK2, so they were real DEC people as far as I know cheers, Nigel On 2024-03-17 10:13, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > I have often wondered about the people we find in the various DEC > Processor (and other) books. Were they models in staged > photo-sessions or were these candid shots from DEC facilities and if > so, can anyone identify who they might be. > > Looking thru some of the books again I came across an interesting > photo on page 42 of the 1981 pdp11 processor handbook / pdp11 04 > 24 34a 44 70. If you take a magnifier to the picture you will find > the system presented in that photo is not a pdp11 but a VAX. :-) I > wonder what other DEC systems are contained in these photos? > > bill -- Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept! Skype: TILBURY2591
