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PDMS presentation from 1979

Mike Causer
Mike Causer over 10 years ago
 
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  • Mike Causer
    Mike Causer over 10 years ago
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/54731504@N04/sets/72157652721390205

    These slides could be used in several ways.  The drawings could be loaded onto a Tektronix tape drive and played back unattended with built-in pauses.  This was very useful at exhibitions.

    The tape could also be played back with a hand control, allowing a spoken commentary., and the drawings could be put onto an overhead projector.

    Everything here was drawn in PDMS, in April 1979.


    Mike
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  • Mike Causer
    Mike Causer over 10 years ago
    I have just added a brochure from around 1980 describing Isopipe North America's PDMS and Compaid services.
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/54731504@N04/sets/72157652694462676

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  • Henrik Landström
    Henrik Landström over 10 years ago
    "The last thing Management and Plant Designers want is tedious, time consuming pipe work..."
    Well, that still holds very true :D

    Interesting as always Mike!
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  • le martret
    le martret over 10 years ago
    thanks for sharing this part of history !!!
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  • Tim Sharrock
    Tim Sharrock over 10 years ago
    Those models still look very familiar!
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  • Neil Holmes
    Neil Holmes over 10 years ago
    And most of the syntax used then still works today, its just that the module names have changed :)
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  • john pitchers
    john pitchers over 10 years ago
    "Cut my teeth" on COMPAID
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  • Mike Causer
    Mike Causer over 10 years ago
    "Cut my teeth" on COMPAID

    I used Compaid on CDC6600 in London for British Steel in 1972/3 and some Isopipe customers 1974/5, on a  machine I forget in Montreal again for an Isopipe customer in 1974, and sometimes on Davy's ICL 1903 in Sheffield in 1975.   After joining PDMS development full-time I didn't actually run it again, just checked the output from PDMS by eye.    

    Where did you use it pitch?

    Mike
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  • Allan McDonald
    Allan McDonald over 10 years ago
    thanks for sharing this part of history !!!


    You want history? I worked for Isopipe Montreal between 1980-1985 and was hired at the same Beaconsfield office
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  • Mike Causer
    Mike Causer over 10 years ago
    You want history? I worked for Isopipe Montreal between 1980-1985 and was hired at the same Beaconsfield office

    We must have met at some time.  In 1980 I was selling & supporting PDMS for Compeda from New Jersey, and 81 to 83 supporting Prime as they got up to speed with Medusa in Boston.  I went to lots of exhibitions in the USA and Canada.

    Do you know the date of that Isopipe NA brochure?  I have asked Jim Madden but he cannot remember.

    Mike
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