Lancaster University computer centre, 1975ish

Even further down the rabbit-hole for viewers of my gallery on University Radio Bailrigg in the mid-1970s. Here are some horrifying images of Lancaster University's computer centre, and relevant paraphernalia:

Note that "prepare or alter the cards" in the instructions. These were the days of inputting programs via punched cards, using machines like those seen here.

Here's a card, with one of the forms which beginners had to use to provide programs to the card-punching team.

And this, if I'm not mistaken, was the sacred machine the staff used to read the information from the cards into the computer.

To be fair, there were some more modern ways to communicate with the computer.

It could even output graphics (and back then we could quite happily use the expression "Can you tell what it is yet?")

The computer's first Christmas card?