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PDMS training - 1976/7 style

Mike Causer
Mike Causer over 12 years ago
 
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  • Mike Causer
    Mike Causer over 12 years ago
    Some not-so-formal paperwork from the training course for the first real PDMS customer.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/54731504@N04/9049822514/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/54731504@N04/9047593597/

    All the drawing was done with PDMS of course.


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  • Ilgiz Kalimullin
    Ilgiz Kalimullin over 12 years ago
    nice!
    is that joke about 50 pences?
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  • Mike Causer
    Mike Causer over 12 years ago
    [QUOTE=Kubik;78138]nice!
    is that joke about 50 pences?
    It's about the price of a beer at that time.  So perhaps they thought my effort was worth a drink?

    For anyone not familiar with the old Imperial measurement system (feet and inches), convert the bank sort code at the bottom left from inches to cm.

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  • Ilgiz Kalimullin
    Ilgiz Kalimullin over 12 years ago
    I'm glad to talk with legendary man like you.
    So you worked for cadcentre at 1976?
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  • Mike Causer
    Mike Causer over 12 years ago
    [QUOTE=Kubik;78154]I'm glad to talk with legendary man like you.
    So you worked for cadcentre at 1976?
    "Legend in  my own lunchtime"  I think you mean....

    I worked at CADCentre from 1975 until 1977, exclusively on PDMS, in the development team under *** Newell.  My actual employer, who continued to pay me, was Isopipe Ltd of Nottingham, one of the three partners in the PDMS project.  I'd been at Isopipe since 1974, but had already been told about PDMS in 1973.  From 1977 until 1980 I was (the only) technical support for the PDMS sales effort in the USA.  The US business was called Bricad from 1977 to 1979, and was a subsidiary of Isopipe.   It then was taken over by Compeda who had responsibility for PDMS sales world-wide, and I left Compeda at the end of 1980 to join the new business where many of the PDMS team were now working, called Cambridge Interactive Systems.  Compeda was bought by Prime Computer in 1983, and some time later PDMS was transfered back to CADCentre -- but I know very little about what happened after 1980.



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  • Ilgiz Kalimullin
    Ilgiz Kalimullin over 12 years ago
    Cool :)
    Thank you for specialities
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  • Mike Causer
    Mike Causer over 12 years ago
    I've added a few scraps from 1974 to Flickr.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/54731504@N04/sets/72157634356482377/

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