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  • Re: Life in the old dog still ...

    From Richard@riplin@azonic.co.nz to comp.lang.cobol on Tue May 8 12:36:03 2018
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    On Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 7:27:46 PM UTC+12, pete dashwood wrote:

    I worked at the place in England where it was invented. (It is
    underground because Mitchell designed the Spitfire there during WW II)
    Reginald Mitchell died 11 June 1937 so he didn't design _anything_ during WWII. The Spitfire was designed in 1934 and 1935 in the Supermarine factory at Woolston in Southampton. The design office at the time was well above ground in the roof space above the factory, I have photos.
    However:
    """The Supermarine factory was bombed in September 1940 with the loss of more than a hundred lives. Spitfire and other aircraft production was then dispersed to other parts of the country, and the design office and administration team were relocated to Hursley Park near Winchester."""
    But Mitchell was never there.
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  • From pete dashwood@dashwood@enternet.co.nz to comp.lang.cobol on Fri May 11 10:44:20 2018
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol

    On 9/05/2018 7:36 AM, Richard wrote:
    On Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 7:27:46 PM UTC+12, pete dashwood wrote:

    I worked at the place in England where it was invented. (It is
    underground because Mitchell designed the Spitfire there during WW II)

    Reginald Mitchell died 11 June 1937 so he didn't design _anything_ during WWII. The Spitfire was designed in 1934 and 1935 in the Supermarine factory at Woolston in Southampton. The design office at the time was well above ground in the roof space above the factory, I have photos.

    However:

    """The Supermarine factory was bombed in September 1940 with the loss of more than a hundred lives. Spitfire and other aircraft production was then dispersed to other parts of the country, and the design office and administration team were relocated to Hursley Park near Winchester."""

    But Mitchell was never there.

    Thanks for the correction, Richard.

    I may have been misled by the photographs of Mitchell and the plans for
    the Spitfire that were on display. Certainly most of the people who
    worked at Hursley Park when I was there knew it for 2 things:

    1. Spitfire design.

    2. Invention of CICS.

    It was a bit surreal working there during an English Winter. You would
    descend for work in the morning dark and when you emerged in the late afternoon it was already dark (and cold, with ice and snow on occasion).

    There were a few people there who had worked on CICS for their entire
    careers, some even knew members of the original team, and there were
    some good war stories about it to be had over coffee.

    Pete.
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