Month: July 2025

The Middlecave Yard Demolition and Rebuild – Late July 2025

Some more photos of the Middlecave Yard demolition and rebuild. As always, bigger images are available with a click.

The view across the junction between Middlecave Road and Victoria Stree. Parts of the footpath remain fenced off.

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York Minster, West Front / James Valentine (between 1860 and 1879)

James Valentine (between 1860 and 1879). From the Getty Museum Collection. Click to Enlarge.

An old photo of what was, back then, a rather new view.

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The cost of a PDP-11 circa 1971

Whilst trying to track down the cost of memory for a PDP-11 I stumbled across The PDP-11 FAQ and it’s rather excellent collection of early 70s PDP-11 price lists. It’s a fun little list, rammed through of interesting little nuggets – today it’s hard to imaging it but in 1972 a line printer would have set you back at least 12,000 USD. That’s almost 92,000 USD in 2025 prices!

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