[personal] cctalk Digest, Vol 47, Issue 29, Message 9 Subject: LEO (1950)

[Mike Hatch]

> Message: 9
> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:29:07 +0100
> From: Rob <robert at irrelevant.com>
> Subject: Re: Vol 47, Issue 28, message 10, Subject: LEO (1950)
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
>
> .. except i had a sudden thought, and checked, and in the couple of
> years since I last drove past the site, a Tesco supermarket has
> apparently sprung up...  Neither multimap.com or google earth
> satellite photos have yet caught up...
>
> Sigh..
>
Tescos are killing our computer history - ? to qualify -

The National Gas Turbine Establishment (NGTE, Farnborough) has been 
partially derilict for the last 10 years or so, on that site were an Elliott 
803B, SDS9300, DEC PDP-7 and 11-05, and more, I helped maintain them. Tesco 
wants to build a 1,000,000 sq ft distribution depot, apparently it will be 
one of the biggest buildings in the Uk,.with 1600 38 ton lorry (non 
motorway) movements a day, nothing good will come of it. I'd love to get 
hold of the PDP7.