Rough Layout of WFWC prior to October 1971

Blue carpet to here.

C-in-C Western Fleet Office

The Big Chief!

C-in-C’s

Corridor

WFWC Main Office

Forecaster

Chart Plotting

Senior RatesDesk

CoffeeBoat!

FAX‘S

ChartPress

Teleprinters

Fax.

Rece

ivers

FMC AND COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (upper floor).

Figure 1a

Magnetic tape control box

PDP 11 Processors

Disk Drives

Digitizer

Glazer

Matrix Plotter

Fax T

/mit

ters

Teleprinters

Ratt and Fax Bays

deskdesk

desk

OPCON High SpeedPlotter

TPs

OPCON Character

Printers

Archive Stores

Stairs down

Teleprinters

BensonPen Plotters

Secure Communications Room

Alpha-numeric

VDU

Consoles Inter-activegraphics

VDU

FMC/OPCONdata transfer

medium

desk OPCON Paper

tape reader

OPCONVDUs

FWOC FORECASTING ROOM (lower floor)

Figure 1b

Benson Pen Plotter

SODASProcessor

SODASVDU

O-I-C’sOffice

FMC inter-active graphics

VDU

desk

OPCON VDU

OPCON Situation display

OPCON Line printer

Workbench

Workbench

Workbench

Stairs up

OPCON VDU

Adapted from an original presentation

compiled by

Gill Charles

CLOUD OBSERVERS 2009

Compiled by Mairi Squibb