Re: OT: Battersea Power Station

From: Paddy O'Brien (paddy.o'brien_at_transgrid.com.au)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:34:48 +1100

John,

Yes, probably happy days. No responsibilities, no kids -- but then I've
loved the kids and grandkids. Used to play in a darts team for the
local and in a "pop" band at holiday camps.

I started work with Eastern Electricity Board at 16. I gained my degree
later in life with the Open University -- and my last 18 yrs of life
with Open VMS :-) In .uk and .au, I've now worked for 43 1/2 years.

After EEB, I moved to CEGB HQ next to St Pauls in centre of London.

Regards, Paddy

John Laird wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:10:11 +1100, Paddy O'Brien
> <paddy.o'brien@transgrid.com.au> wrote:
>
>
>>John Laird wrote:
>>
>>>I've worked for the CEGB too, but only as a student. Happy days.
>>>
>>
>>John,
>>
>>Not able to write to your address ...
>>
>>Where did you work, with whom, are/were you an electrical engineer?
>
>
> Shouldn't be anything wrong with my email address (the nospam@ is a
> misnomer) but every now and again I think something objects (wrongly) to the
> hyphen, which is quite valid. You can try my work address which is john at
> yrl dot co dot uk.
>
> I worked two summers at the Marchwood research labs in the late 70s. My
> first introduction to "proper" computing, including naturally, Adventure -
> on a GEC 4080 ;-) Running simulations, adapting software, etc. I had one
> boss who managed to set fire to his wastepaper basket just behind him, and
> by the time that had triggered a smoke alarm, caused building evacuation ,
> and two volunteers went back in to investigate, he was still sat at his desk
> merrily smoking his pipe and ignoring the alarm... Park St used to send
> down a couple of trees worth of line printer output every day, iirc.
>
> Pay in the first summer was about £45/week which wasn't at all bad. The
> following year I phoned up to see if I should apply again and they said that
> wasn't necessary and a job was mine if I wanted it. On day one, I had to
> drop into personnel to get a pass and it was casually mentioned that after a
> bit of thought they had upped the pay - to £69/week ! Through the summer I
> managed to earn about half of what my annual student grant amounted to,
> which in those days was enough to live on. And after all that, one of my
> supervisors wrote me a reference which my first full-time employers told me
> had clinched my first job. As I said, happy days.
>

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