On 2013-04-22 08:56:27 +0000, James Brown said:

On 22/04/2013 09:09, 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 message ...

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

I am most grateful for your input folks. I had a feeling that when I
showed the meteorologists the photo quality prints I was creating that
there were some slightly envious looks!

If any others want to contribute please feel free,

James

Hi James.

I can understand the envious looks when shown photo quality images. I
remember being shown a VHRR image of Eire with an unstable
northwesterly across it, and being completely amazed that individual Cu
and Cb cells were visible in detail, rather than just a group of white
dots that would have been the best we could hope for on a fax chart.

I also remember being left in naive amazement (probably around 1990)
when someone demonstrated a movie loop program on a "souped-up" BBC
micro (I think) with added RAM, which was playing a close sequence of
about 6 Meteosat images over and over again. Suddenly I became aware of
the possibilities which computers might open up.