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#261 |
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There's a white electric push button doorbell on Robert Shaw's house in the film Battle of Britain, very common in the 60's when the film was made, but nothing like that in 1940. Plus an outdoor light, with modern wiring. I seriously doubt he would have that at that time.
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#263 |
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Probably hardened rubber in the soundbox - with the right material and in good shape, an EMG can sound startlingly real.
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#264 |
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Thanks Ted, that's what I guessed. But it surprised me that a museum run by very knowledgable folk would tolerate that.
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#265 |
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Aye, there's the rub - a museum is about preservation, and this sometimes comes into conflict with having the thing in working order, an issue which can cause great ructions among steam enthusiasts. I was lucky and had my soudboxes refurbished by a lovely guy called George Overstall, who had worked on them in period - only just in time from my point of view, as he died eighteen months later. Rebuilding and re-tuning soundboxes is in danger of becoming a lost art.
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#266 |
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Did anyone see the episode of Granchester last night; with that room full of electronics. It was supposed to be a computer system from the sixties but looked nothing like the ones that I had seen in the past; just large cabinets with some lamps on the front. It looks as though they had just gathered whatever was available from an electronics scrapyard and racked it up. I'm sure I saw a Marconi sig gen in there as well as large analogue meters. I am still puzzled at the box containing a large amount of leaking Mercury which was suggested retained memory better?
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#267 |
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And a couple more pics...
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It is all rather random! They made a much better effort in Thunderbirds!!
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Wasn't Thunderbirds made in the sixties, though, when what sixties computers looked like was still current knowledge?
Large boxes and mercury is possibly a nod to mercury filled acoustic delay lines used dynamic memory.
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#270 |
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Looks more like a prod designer's take on Colossus...
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#271 |
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To me, that's just laziness on the Producers/Directors part, there's more than enough information out there to be able to reproduce something even slightly closer to reality.
Maybe they thought there wasn't anybody left alive that would remember any of that. |
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#272 |
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I agree, that's a hopeless recreation of a 1960s computer machine room, though it's not unlike a 1950s computer research lab where lots of odd bits of hardware would have been in use.
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#273 |
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The rotating blackboards look more 70's to me. And the florescent tube too looks to modern.
Was the computer done to play noughts and crosses! |
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#274 |
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Seems the Producers did take some advice, Dr Andrew Herbert OBE and the National Museum of Computing get a mention in the credits.
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#275 |
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Been there. They ask your advice and go their own sweet way anyhow...
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Probably no budget to do it "properly", so they just settled for random bits of old equipment.
Thinking about the programme, though, isn't that set in the '50s, not the '60s?
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