1986

These are DOS machines with 5¼-inch floppy drives. The one in the foreground is some kind of IBM PC/AT and probably employs an Intel 80286 CPU. The screen might be a CGA screen. The displayed stuff looks white (phosphor) to me. I think it's a WordPerfect screen. Does this screen look like XY Write or Microsoft Word? There's a glare shield over the cathode ray tube face. There's a glare from something in spite of the attenuator.

The person in the background is using what looks like an AT&T personal computer, manufactured by Olivetti.

Networks were sometimes proprietary. I worked with 2.5 megabits per second Arcnet about this time. Newer installations had 10Base2 10 megabits per second ethernet. Both of these ran over 50-ohm chnaracteristic impeadance coaxial cable.

Gentry started at Rohr 6 years earlier in 1980. This photo appeared in a newspaper with the announcement of a new Rohr Space Products Division.

The Wills building, East Coast main line and coast road. Building built as a cigarette factory in the late 1940s.

My big sis worked here and we lived just along the road Got some pix

Class wifes mother worked there

Gosforth and Kenton waggonway to the right hand side of the photo

Tom Bailey, I worked there around 1978 - 1981 on Maintenance with my good buddy Spider from Walker we used the service ducts and pipe shaft's to move around the building undetected such fun. Remember Spider above the Packing room ? I am now living in the USA. e-mail : tombailey6262@yahoo.com