She wouldn’t have welcomed it, believing that what she did mattered, not who she was, but Judy was welcomed into the Hall of Fame on her birthday 2019 as Woman Engineer of the Week see https://www.facebook.com/pg/WES1919/posts. She would have been more pleased that she was associated there with Winifred Hackett Woman of the week 98. She respected her as she respected no-one else. Including her husband.
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Hello David,
It is highly unlikely that you will remember me but we met on two or three occasions, at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (R Block) in Malvern, during the 1980s. On one of these visits you were accompanied by an attractive young woman called Allison, who may have been a university student/recent graduate recruit and strangely memorable, given that I was then in my twenties 🙂
I met your wife Judy on another occasion and recall that you saying “Don’t be offended if my wife doesn’t shake your hand” and “It may be best not to attempt it”.
My Section purchased Simpleplot and used it as our primary graphical software. for a number of years. At the time we were using a DEC VAX 11/750 and MicroVAX II, FPS Array Processors, together with: Assorted laser printers, HP pen plotters, VT241/VT340s and a Tektronix Phaser 840 Waxjet printer that used coloured sticks of wax like children’s crayons. I believe we may have still been using Simpleplot on X terminals (memory a bit hazy) but when we switched to workstations/unix, there was a move to data visualisation languages, such as PV-Wave and then IDL.
I stumbled across this website when searching for what happened to Simpleplot and having read all the history, decided to reply as a former user. Other people you would also have met when at RSRE (more senior) include my then boss, Dr Keith Ward but it was a very long time ago and you must have met thousands of customers over the years, so remembering any particular individual may be difficult?
The RSRE site (at WR14 3PS) , which later became part of QinetiQ is now a shadow of its former self, with much of the land having been sold off for housing development plus a Science Park.
Wishing you well and good luck with any future cycling adventures.
Regards
Rob
PS. What happened to the Simpleplot source code? I see that there is a silverfost.com website that has the Simpleplot manuals and supplementary documentation plus a Simpleplot dll but wondered if the original source code was archived and/or in the public domain?
It may largely be nostalgia but I really liked the HP pen plotters and wondered if one of the computing museums could utilise their ancient (1980s) hardware, coupled with Simpleplot, in order to demonstrate graphics and plotting on such devices and graphics terminals?
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