Story behind famous 50s photo of when Norwich went electric
“Built into an office behind the rates counter, the machine consists of a series of tin cupboards, a battery of teleprinters, and a formidable control panel desk that seems to have come from a space-rocket launching site. “The cupboards which are the crux of the whole machine, contain the ‘memories’ – two of them ‘working memory’ which more or less controls the machine’s system of operation and a ‘bulk memory’ consisting of two mechanisms where the permanent data is stored on reels of ordinary cinema-type film.” In other words it was a touch complicated. We said the co...
Source: edp24.co.uk