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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2014 5:07:34 GMT
Bristol Street with Bromsgrove Street on the left The Wellington Pub on the corner is still standing
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2014 5:12:02 GMT
The Children's Hairdressing Salon Inside Lewis's Store Corporation Street Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2014 5:14:18 GMT
Corporation Street - December 1982
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Davenports Offices & Bottling Factory Bath Row Lee Bank
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2014 5:16:08 GMT
Bonfire and Fair within Small Heath Park 1972
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2014 5:17:17 GMT
Small Heath Park Paddling Pool July 1967
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2014 5:17:55 GMT
Inside St Benedicts Church Small Heath
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2014 5:19:39 GMT
Reposted A dustcart in Somerville Road Muntz Street & Baker Street are to the rear of the cart
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Post by Jerry on Jun 11, 2014 8:50:35 GMT
Corporation street picture: Laskys shop!! Remember ths only too well. It was one of the first to start selling what were then called "BBC Home Computers." They had several terminals set up for people to come up and try. This would have circa 1982 - so almost exactly when the picture was taken. Alas, when it came to choice, they only had the 16K and 32K processor versions - and those green display square monitors. My current mobile phone has a 2.3 GIGA hertz processor. That's 30 years of progress (if you can call it that) for you! :-) Anyway - super picture! You call that progress? 'tis but a mere bagatelle! I did a six month course of computer programming in 1975. Desk top computers were just emerging so companies were all still using huge mainframe number crunchers with a starting price of half a million plus! To produce this post I would have had to enter each character as a hexadecimal number on a coding sheet. These coding sheets would then be sent to the Hollerith dept. where a machine operator would punch out a separate Hollerith card for each character, so several hundred cards later all the cards would be forced down the throat of the computer's CPU by the computer operator, who was the lowest branch on a tree that consisted of, in ascending order, computer operator, junior programmer, senior programmer and systems analyst. The whole process would take probably half a day and if you want smilies draw ‘em yerself mate! Now those were the good old days Jerry PS Obviously I'd have used a typewriter instead.
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Post by planetmalc on Jun 12, 2014 17:16:46 GMT
Corporation street picture: Laskys shop!! Remember ths only too well. It was one of the first to start selling what were then called "BBC Home Computers." They had several terminals set up for people to come up and try. This would have circa 1982 - so almost exactly when the picture was taken. Alas, when it came to choice, they only had the 16K and 32K processor versions - and those green display square monitors. My current mobile phone has a 2.3 GIGA hertz processor. That's 30 years of progress (if you can call it that) for you! :-) Anyway - super picture! My old company's first mainframe - a LEO (stands for Lyon's Electronic Office) - also had 16k of memory and it was housed in lots of large floor-to-ceiling cabinets that stood against 3 walls of a pretty large computer room! It took up this much space because every BIT of memory was a soft-iron polo-like ring with an electrical wire passing through its centre, the bit-value being determined by the direction of the current flowing through the wire. My first home computer - a Tandy PC-2 - initially came with ca. 1.8k of memory and fitted into my pocket, but I upgraded it with the addition of a 16k RAM module that was around 2" x 1.5" in size and slotted into the back of the PC's body - that's how much 16k of memory had been compressed in just 20 years! So which home computer did you eventually get, B_B? I think Lasky's was the same premises that used to be Midland Educational back in the 50's.
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Post by vince on Jun 12, 2014 18:32:21 GMT
Corporation street picture: Laskys shop!! Remember ths only too well. It was one of the first to start selling what were then called "BBC Home Computers." They had several terminals set up for people to come up and try. This would have circa 1982 - so almost exactly when the picture was taken. Alas, when it came to choice, they only had the 16K and 32K processor versions - and those green display square monitors. My current mobile phone has a 2.3 GIGA hertz processor. That's 30 years of progress (if you can call it that) for you! :-) Anyway - super picture! My old company's first mainframe - a LEO (stands for Lyon's Electronic Office) - also had 16k of memory and it was housed in lots of large floor-to-ceiling cabinets that stood against 3 walls of a pretty large computer room! It took up this much space because every BIT of memory was a soft-iron polo-like ring with an electrical wire passing through its centre, the bit-value being determined by the direction of the current flowing through the wire. My first home computer - a Tandy PC-2 - initially came with ca. 1.8k of memory and fitted into my pocket, but I upgraded it with the addition of a 16k RAM module that was around 2" x 1.5" in size and slotted into the back of the PC's body - that's how much 16k of memory had been compressed in just 20 years! So which home computer did you eventually get, B_B? I think Lasky's was the same premises that used to be Midland Educational back in the 50's. Not sure about the 50s, in the 60s Miland Ed was opposite Lewis's on Corporation St wasnt it ? And wasnt Laskys the one you could walk through and come out opposite the Windsor ?
Thought that used to be Yates Wine Lodge.
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Post by planetmalc on Jun 13, 2014 16:19:33 GMT
My old company's first mainframe - a LEO (stands for Lyon's Electronic Office) - also had 16k of memory and it was housed in lots of large floor-to-ceiling cabinets that stood against 3 walls of a pretty large computer room! It took up this much space because every BIT of memory was a soft-iron polo-like ring with an electrical wire passing through its centre, the bit-value being determined by the direction of the current flowing through the wire. My first home computer - a Tandy PC-2 - initially came with ca. 1.8k of memory and fitted into my pocket, but I upgraded it with the addition of a 16k RAM module that was around 2" x 1.5" in size and slotted into the back of the PC's body - that's how much 16k of memory had been compressed in just 20 years! So which home computer did you eventually get, B_B? I think Lasky's was the same premises that used to be Midland Educational back in the 50's. Not sure about the 50s, in the 60s Miland Ed was opposite Lewis's on Corporation St wasnt it ? And wasnt Laskys the one you could walk through and come out opposite the Windsor ?
Thought that used to be Yates Wine Lodge. Yes, the Midland Ed DID move to the location you mention, but it was definitely somewhere around the Lasky's location before that. It was an incredible shop: multi-floor and you had to use these REALLY creaky wooden stairs to gain access to various floors. The stairs changed direction as you went up them (like a spiral staircase but without the curves) and were situated slap-bang in the middle of each floor (not hidden discretely away at the edge ). The books were all arranged according to some organised-chaos system that only the staff really understood, but, the great thing was, every section stayed in the same place forever (not like a lot of today's shops where everything is moved around every few weeks).
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Post by vince on Jun 13, 2014 20:38:56 GMT
Yes, the Midland Ed DID move to the location you mention, but it was definitely somewhere around the Lasky's location before that. It was an incredible shop: multi-floor and you had to use these REALLY creaky wooden stairs to gain access to various floors. The stairs changed direction as you went up them (like a spiral staircase but without the curves) and were situated slap-bang in the middle of each floor (not hidden discretely away at the edge ). The books were all arranged according to some organised-chaos system that only the staff really understood, but, the great thing was, every section stayed in the same place forever (not like a lot of today's shops where everything is moved around every few weeks). All I remember about Midland Ed was lampshade frames, kits to make your own Moccasins. Huge place over 2 floors. A bit likeHobbycraft, but cheaper. By the way, I worked for Kalamazoo for a while, all those boffins and they needed someone like me to repair the analogue stuff, EGA/CGA monitors PSUs, terminals things like that. Most of it was AT machines by then. Plus the Amstrads. Only the odd Windows PC.
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Post by planetmalc on Jun 14, 2014 15:07:00 GMT
Yes, the Midland Ed DID move to the location you mention, but it was definitely somewhere around the Lasky's location before that. It was an incredible shop: multi-floor and you had to use these REALLY creaky wooden stairs to gain access to various floors. The stairs changed direction as you went up them (like a spiral staircase but without the curves) and were situated slap-bang in the middle of each floor (not hidden discretely away at the edge ). The books were all arranged according to some organised-chaos system that only the staff really understood, but, the great thing was, every section stayed in the same place forever (not like a lot of today's shops where everything is moved around every few weeks). All I remember about Midland Ed was lampshade frames, kits to make your own Moccasins. Huge place over 2 floors. A bit likeHobbycraft, but cheaper. By the way, I worked for Kalamazoo for a while, all those boffins and they needed someone like me to repair the analogue stuff, EGA/CGA monitors PSUs, terminals things like that. Most of it was AT machines by then. Plus the Amstrads. Only the odd Windows PC. Kalamazoo - R.I.P.
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Post by forever63 on Jun 17, 2016 0:16:39 GMT
Reposted A dustcart in Somerville Road Muntz Street & Baker Street are to the rear of the cart
any idea when this was taken i was there in 1965
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