Description of Photograph

Digital copy of a photograph taken during the process of laying the new floor in the LEO I 'Calculator room' at Cadby Hall.  

Caption: 'Re-laying floor in Calculator Room'.

This image appears in the interactive plan for our Virtual LEO I installation, p78.

Related images: 

• CMLEO/PB/PH/1/52941
• CMLEO/LS/PH/1/61872
• CMLEO/LS/PH/1/61873
• CMLEO/LS/PH/1/61875

 

Research comments: This photograph of the 'calculator room' at Cadby Hall is one of the few that show this part of the room. from this direction It looks to have been taken from the doorway next to LEO's power supply (the end of which can just be seen on the right hand side of the photo). The area eventually housed all of the peripheral equipment needed to input and output data to/from LEO.

Relaying the wooden floor involved raising it to accommodate cabling underneath. The room is on the second floor and the windows faced out over the enclosed 'quad' around which the offices of WX block (the admin block) were located. (LM)

Provenance
Digital copy made by John Daines, LEO Computers Society, of a photograph in the LEO Computers Collection (formerly part of the National Archive of Historic Computing) at the University of Manchester Library: NAHC/LEO/B1-63

Date: December 1953

Physical Description: 1 digital image (jpeg); black & white

Archives Hub References: CMLEO/LS/PH/1/61874
NAHCB1-63

Other References: DCMLEO20210214051
                  
                  
                  
                  


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