The two DEUCE machines at Mathematical Services Department, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough.
Pat Walter is sitting at the control desk of Gert and Kathleen Mills is standing in front of the output punch of Daisy
( © Pat Walter )
which is reproduced as the home page for this DEUCE website.
Some retouching appears to have been done to remove the Gert and Daisy boards and the large
English Electric logo at the front of Gert.
From the back:- Vic Mathews, Derek Savory, John Newman and Jeremy Walker
( © P J Walker )
Jeremy Walker furthest away, (working, perhaps, on the Glasgow or Whetstone machine),
Luigi (Rocky) Marciano centre and Frank Thompson on the foreground machine.
This photo appeared on page 23 of English Electric Sales Brochure ES/151A (Thanks to Noel Wesson)
( © Alan Gray )
Jack Richardson is seated at the control desk with the card reader on his left. George Davis is removing cards from the punch. Behind the punch, against the wall, is the power supply. Between the power supply and the main frame is the "mushroom" which contains the 12 mercury delay lines.
This photo appeared on page 3 of English Electric Sales Brochure ES/151A
DEUCE room at EE London Computer Centre, Marconi House, Strand. ( Thanks to John Woolger )
Engineer Training course at Kidsgrove in 1958. --- From left to right.
Bob Collins - Gordon Jones - ???? - Thin Nenseth - ???? - Noel Wesson - John Bishop
The instructor is Arthur Bailey
This photo appeared on page 22 of English Electric Sales Brochure ES/151A (Thanks to Noel Wesson)
DEUCE Mk II being installed at the Central Bureau of Statistics, OSLO in 1960.
From left to right.
Thin Nenseth - Bob McCall - John Newman - Ola Grindal
( © Thin Nenseth )
The caption reads
"The electronic computer DEUCE. The machine, which was delivered the 8th May 1959, continued to be the most important one amongst the machines NR used until the autumn 1963." Thanks to Thin Nenseth for this item and the translation from Norwegian.
From a photo copy of the English Electric Sales Brochure - Publication ES/126 - 055730B&W
Thanks to Kathleen Williams, nee Mills
"The photos look like they were taken in September 1956 when the machine was virtually in one piece."
(Robin Vowels)
© Courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
© Courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
© Courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
The four left hand rotary switches are for card number. The eight right hand rotary switches are for job number. Cabinets of 80 column card trays in the background.
© Courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
© Courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Punch Card Cabinets and Power Supply at the rear.
© Courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
© Courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
© Courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
The transmitters and receivers are arranged around the cylinder containing the 12 mercury filled folded delay lines. One delay line is shown mounted in the maintenance cradle.
© Courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
© Courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
( © Gordon Bell )
The photograph would have been taken in 1962 ( © David Lee )
Observant Deuce users may notice some subtle additions. Check Deuce Tech Note for details
(© English Electric photograph, reproduced with permission - Steve Allcock)
This photo appeared on page 19 of English Electric Sales Brochure ES/151A
"Brian Petrie and myself. Brian is facing the camera, and all you see of me is the back of my head"
Michael Caine. Thanks to Michael for these 3 photos from his personal collection.
"View of the DEUCE room with me at the console, the engineer Al Beeden wearing spectacles and
Brian Petrie preparing the next job to be run on the DEUCE" Michael Caine
"Brian Petrie alone at the console" Michael Caine
( © University Archives )
