On Apr 22, 9:09*am, "Mags" wrote:
Mid 1990's where I was working. When *we moved to a new office in 1992, the
Mufax machines were assigned to a small closed room, as the chemicals made
walls turn a nice shade of brown and this became known as the Dirty comms
room, as opposed to the Comms room, which *had the various comms cabinets. I
think we stopped using them about 1995.
Margaret

"James Brown" *wrote in ...

I am embarking on a series of articles regarding my ventures into remote
imaging via meteorological satellites - I began receiving images from
home-brew equipment back in the 1970's.

One small technical point, would anyone know when the Met office stopped
using the wet paper facsimile machines for chart and imagery read out? I
remember visiting the Cardiff Met office and carrying off some of those
slightly fuzzy purplish print-outs, but can't quite remember when that
would have been.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

James

Yes, it was mid 90s when we gave up on them in the Met Lab at Plymouth
Uni.
We had previously received the NOAA satellites directly on a Vaisala
receiver and occasionally printed them out on a bulky photographic
developer. More nasty chemicals.
We also used more routinely the molfax machine, but this was replaced
by a smaller Furuno fax machine for charts which had electro-sensitive
silver paper.

Len
Wembury