2960, Peripherals & VME

TOSD Test Operating System D for standalone test programs

I eventually transferred from the Birmingham area to the Swindon area in December 1976 working initially at W.H Smiths Greenbridge on their 2970 and 2960s, then later became responsible for Woolworth's 1904 & House of Fraser's Dual 2960

People

House of Fraser

Tony May - DP Manager HOF

Derek Horner - was ICL regional support - took over as DP manager after Tony May left

Grahame Clark - my boss at HOF

Pete Morrison - HOF later became my boss

Paul Gibson - HOF later still became my boss - went to Harrods eventually

Jackie Lampard - HOF ICL software support

Harry Nicholls - HOF operator - managed to lose essential HOF tapes at WHS - left to go back to Barbados

Roger Smith HOF Operations - Shift supervisor

Addie Webb HOF Operations - Shift supervisor

Steve Greenfield HOF was shift supervisor - joined procurement with me - left to go to Thames Water

Dave Quartermain HOF same level introduced SCERT modelling then left to join Morgan Grenfell

Don Bernard - HOF Small systems Office Automation etc. Datapoint, Redifon

Graham Keats - HOF took charge of Quality Assurance

Pete Taylor - HOF Database man

John Hall - HOF Comms provided photos of System 4 - since retired

Vic Zonko HOF ICL software support - left to go to Australia

ICL

John Palmer ICL Thorn EMI

Scott Jordan ICL House of Fraser left to go to WH Smith then started his own company.

Steve Opalka ICL Project Manager House of Fraser - came to England at the time of the Hungarian revolution - was at university in Hungary - got a job in UK as a textile workers mate - then went back to university and went on from there to ICL. Learnt English by writing everything down in a notebook to build his vocabulary - must have learnt some choice phrases

Ed Dawson - ICL Project Manager House of Fraser, a real character

Colin Thomas ICL - WHS

Tony Funnell ICL - WHS

Shaun Courtney ICL - WHS left to go to Devon

WHS 2960 which ran DME System 4 overnight for House of Fraser and DME George III for WHS during part of the day

DME LEO 326 developed but I never saw it in action

7905 Comms box

7903 Comms box