Rough Layout of WFWC prior to October 1971 Blue carpet to here. C-in-C Western Fleet Office The Big...

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Page 1: Rough Layout of WFWC prior to October 1971 Blue carpet to here. C-in-C Western Fleet Office The Big Chief! C-in-C’s C o r i d o r WFWC Main Office Forecaster.
Page 2: Rough Layout of WFWC prior to October 1971 Blue carpet to here. C-in-C Western Fleet Office The Big Chief! C-in-C’s C o r i d o r WFWC Main Office Forecaster.

Rough Layout of WFWC prior to October 1971

Blue carpet to here.

C-in-C Western Fleet Office

The Big Chief!

C-in-C’s

Corridor

WFWC Main Office

Forecaster

Chart Plotting

Senior RatesDesk

CoffeeBoat!

FAX‘S

ChartPress

Teleprinters

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Page 5: Rough Layout of WFWC prior to October 1971 Blue carpet to here. C-in-C Western Fleet Office The Big Chief! C-in-C’s C o r i d o r WFWC Main Office Forecaster.
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Fax.

Rece

ivers

FMC AND COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (upper floor).

Figure 1a

Magnetic tape control box

PDP 11 Processors

Disk Drives

Digitizer

Glazer

Matrix Plotter

Fax T

/mit

ters

Teleprinters

Ratt and Fax Bays

deskdesk

desk

OPCON High SpeedPlotter

TPs

OPCON Character

Printers

Archive Stores

Stairs down

Teleprinters

BensonPen Plotters

Secure Communications Room

Alpha-numeric

VDU

Consoles Inter-activegraphics

VDU

FMC/OPCONdata transfer

medium

desk OPCON Paper

tape reader

OPCONVDUs

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FWOC FORECASTING ROOM (lower floor)

Figure 1b

Benson Pen Plotter

SODASProcessor

SODASVDU

O-I-C’sOffice

FMC inter-active graphics

VDU

desk

OPCON VDU

OPCON Situation display

OPCON Line printer

Workbench

Workbench

Workbench

Stairs up

OPCON VDU

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Adapted from an original presentation

compiled by

Gill Charles

CLOUD OBSERVERS 2009

Compiled by Mairi Squibb