{"id":105,"date":"2018-06-25T22:28:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T21:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/?p=105"},"modified":"2018-06-25T22:28:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T21:28:42","slug":"25-june-ct-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/2018\/06\/25\/25-june-ct-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"25 June: CT Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>On my &#8220;Monday visit&#8221; for this week I &#8230;<br \/>\nReplaced a few of the captions in the Floor 3 display cabinets (what had been the Floor 6 cabinets, before CompSci moved to USB). Some of the items had been removed for display in the new CompSci Reception cabinet, in the USB: I am replacing these with appropriate items, and changing the captions if they are no longer accurate. I also took the opportunity of editing a couple of the existing captions.<br \/>\nWhy bother with these displays, with NUIT moving in (or before) October? Because this is a public display-in-waiting, and it behoves us to take good care of it as such.<\/li>\n<li>Which raises another important point: we will have to move those cabinets in the next few months, before Estates come thundering in with their bulldozers. In a masterpiece of moving, two of our favourite porters (supervised or rather watched by me) moved them down from the 6th Floor in October last year: it was an amazing feat. Next time they move, they will have to be disassembled, and the pieces very carefully wrapped in acres of protective materials: I would guess that this will be at least a whole day&#8217;s work for two people.<\/li>\n<li>Next today, I did a reconnaissance on an item belonging to the Museum which is in CT 111: this is a Memorex 3680 disk drive, which weighs about 160 pounds (70kg). It is sitting on a metal cabinet, which I discovered for the first time today is something called a Xerox Fury (disk drive): I couldn&#8217;t find this in Google today; it isn&#8217;t mentioned in the catalogue as far as I know.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/files\/2018\/06\/20161214-Memorex-3680-drive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-106 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/files\/2018\/06\/20161214-Memorex-3680-drive-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/files\/2018\/06\/20161214-Memorex-3680-drive-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/files\/2018\/06\/20161214-Memorex-3680-drive-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/files\/2018\/06\/20161214-Memorex-3680-drive-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/files\/2018\/06\/20161214-Memorex-3680-drive-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/files\/2018\/06\/20161214-Memorex-3680-drive.jpg 1469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSo just for the record, I have a place in mind to store this in the SB; again, it will require a team of people &#8211; preferably three I think &#8211; and will take about 1\/2 hour. I&#8217;m expecting to do this when I return (see below).<\/li>\n<li>Finally, I made more solid progress in catalogue verification, though only had half an hour to work on this.<\/li>\n<li>Finally finally: CSH-SIG Committee members should be alert to the fact that Estates are already moving into CT (it was depressing to see stickers on doors in the Basement today). I have made very small steps to establishing liaison with Estates, and will make a bigger effort after I &#8220;return to work&#8221;. Now that we know we have Michelle on at least one of the relevant committees, this should be a lot easier.<\/li>\n<li>One thing that occurred to me today: we need to get our spare keys from Reception before they move to Black Horse House, because when they do move, all their keys will be given to Estates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally finally finally: I am now away until Monday 16th July. I&#8217;ll be in Canada, and so won&#8217;t welcome any phone calls or texts; however Whatsapp works, and I&#8217;ll be reviewing email now and then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my &#8220;Monday visit&#8221; for this week I &#8230; Replaced a few of the captions in the Floor 3 display cabinets (what had been the Floor 6 cabinets, before CompSci moved to USB). 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