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Western Fleet Weather Centre To Joint Operational Meteorology and Oceanography Centre 1967-2009. C-in-C Western Fleet Office The Big Chief!. Blue carpet to here. Chart Press. WFWC Main Office. Forecaster. C-in-C’s C o r r i d o r. Chart Plotting.
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Western Fleet Weather CentreToJoint Operational Meteorology and Oceanography Centre1967-2009
C-in-C Western Fleet Office The Big Chief! Blue carpet to here. Chart Press WFWC Main Office Forecaster C-in-C’s C o r r i d o r Chart Plotting Rough Layout of WFWC prior to October 1971 Senior Rates Desk T e l e p r i n t e r s F A X ‘ S Coffee Boat!
FMC AND COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (upper floor). Secure Communications Room Magnetic tape control box Ratt and Fax Bays PDP 11 Processors Stairs down Archive Stores Disk Drives desk TPs Digitizer OPCON Character Printers Fax T/mitters Fax. Receivers Benson Pen Plotters OPCON Paper tape reader desk desk Teleprinters Glazer Matrix Plotter OPCON High Speed Plotter Teleprinters desk FMC/OPCON data transfer medium Consoles Inter-active graphics VDU Alpha- numeric VDU OPCON VDUs Figure 1a
FWOC FORECASTING ROOM (lower floor) Benson Pen Plotter OPCON VDU SODAS Processor Work bench desk SODAS VDU Stairs up OPCON Line printer Work bench Work bench O-I-C’s Office OPCON Situation display OPCON VDU FMC inter-active graphics VDU Figure 1b
Adapted from an original presentation compiled by Gill Charles CLOUD OBSERVERS 2009 Compiled by Mairi Squibb
