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Year 1986

Jan 27

SUC/5: Considered paper "Future Possibilities for Starlink".

Feb 11

Software Environment Review meeting 2 (RAL) - 14 present (SGP/33). Decided to adopt ADAM as the environment to be developed.

25/26

SMM/20 (DUR)

Mar 1

Monica Kendall joined Starlink at RAL as assistant to Lawden. Moved under Terrett on 22 May 86.

Malcolm Currie joined Starlink at RAL as application programmer.

Apr 1

Starlink questionnaire distributed to 669 people of which 394 returned.

St Andrews microVAX became operational (Roger Stapleton - SM).

Roger Noble replaced Chris Flatters as JOD Site Manager.

May 23

SUC/6

Preston microVAX became operational (Ian Butchart - acting SM).

Jun 2

Jo Murray joined Starlink at RAL.

23

Eugene Black joined Starlink at RAL as assistant to Lawden.

24/25

SMM/21 (ROE)

Aug 7

Starlink questionnaire results issued as SGP/35.

Sep 1

SUC/7: Repelled take over bid from ROE; wants centre to remain at RAL.

24

1st release of ADAM - Starlink's 3rd environment.

26

Southampton microVAX became operational (Bernie Payne - SM).

Oct 1/2

SMM/22 (RAL)

13

SUC/8

17

Estimates (87/88) and forward look:

DMY

12

12

12

9

9

9

Manpower

307

316

321

241

241

241

Recurrent

1283

1506

1489

1430

1430

1430

Total

1590

1822

1810

1671

1671

1671

Phil Daly replaced Mike Denby as Leicester Site Manager.

Brian McIlwrath replaced Chris Flatters as Jodrell Site Manager.

Nov 1

Jim Peden (programmer BIR) left Starlink.

19

First release of KAPPA - the first ADAM application package.

Year 1987

Jan 1

Sandy Leggett joined Starlink as DBSIG programmer - Univ of Edinburgh.

12

SUC/9

19

Richard Prestage joined Starlink as RASIG programmer - JOD.

Feb 4

SMM/23 (UCL)

9

Nicholas Eaton joined Starlink as IPESIG programmer - DUR.

12

Data Format Standards meeting at RAL - 20 people. Led to SGP/38.

23

Cardiff microVAX became operational (Bob Thomson - SM).

May 1

Paul C T Rees joined Starlink as SPECSIG programmer - UCL.

4

Dave S Berry joined Starlink as IRASIG programmer - MAN.

11

Cardiff site officially opened by the Astronomer Royal - Prof Sir F Graham Smith.

18

SUC/10

Jun 15

Richard D Saxton joined Starlink as XRAYSIG programmer - LEI

25/26

SMM/24 (BIR)

QMC microVAX became operational (Jim Emerson & Brian Whitmore joint SM).

Aug 6

Keele microVAX became operational (Peter Allan & Brian McIlwrath SMs).

26

Estimates (88/89) and forward look:

DMY

12

12

12

12

12

12

Total

1582

1545

1523

1523

1523

1523

Sep 8/18

Second ADAM Workshop held in Hawaii.

14

SUC/11: Ground Based Plan. Future of RGO node. Associated mini-nodes.

30-Oct 1

SMM/25 (RAL)

26

SUC/12

Nov 1

Rodney F Warren-Smith joined Starlink as IPESIG programmer - DUR.

20

Oxford microVAX became operational (Jon Godwin - SM).

Dec 5

ADAM Steering Committee Meeting 1.

31

Carol Robinson (CAM) left Starlink to go to Australia with her husband.

Armagh and Belfast started as Starlink's 11th and 12th sites (usually referred to as the `Northern Ireland node').

Year 1988

Jan 1

Paul Brown joined Starlink as Northern Ireland Site Manager (ARM/BEL)

5

Starlink Bulletin 1 issued. This is the start of a new series of newsletters; the last series ended 4.7 years ago.

18

SUC/13

19

MAN node became a VAXcluster with addition of VAXstation 1000.

23

1st edition of SGP/38 on Standard Data Structures released.

Feb 1

Tony Lynas-Gray replaced Jon Godwin as OXF Site Manager.

Chris Clayton joined Starlink as CAM Site Manager.

2

OXF became accessible from DECNET and JANET.

3/4

SMM/26 (RAL)

18

Dave Pearce died.

29

Starlink Database microVAX (CEN) started to offer a user service.

Mar 30

Richard Prestage (JOD) left Starlink to join JCMT group at ROE.

31

Richard Hook (Site Manager) left Starlink - UCL. Paul Rees became acting Site Manager at UCL.

Apr 21

ADAM Steering Committee Meeting 2. Plans made for ADAM/FIGARO release.

Software development microVAX started to offer a user service at RAL.

May 1

Deanna (Dee) Nicholson joined Starlink as the new UCL Site Manager.

James Albinson became the acting Keele Site Manager.

5

Official opening of the Northern Ireland Starlink Node (ARM & BEL)

Jun 1

Chris Flatters joined Starlink at JOD as RASIG programmer.

Starlink Bulletin 2 issued.

15/16

SMM/27 (Belfast/Armagh)

Aug 15

Sandy Leggett (Univ of Edinburgh) left Starlink.

Sep 1

Allan Willis replaced Craig Mackay as SUC chairman.

13

SUC/14

19

David Rawlinson joined Starlink at RAL as assistant to Mike Lawden.

Oct 1

Kevin Richardson joined Starlink as the new QMC Site Manager.

10

James Albinson joined Starlink as the new Keele Site Manager.

12/13

SMM/28 (Coseners House, RAL). First Starlink AGM (replacing SMM once a year).

14

The number of registered Starlink users reached 1000 for the first time.

18

TCP/1: First meeting of Theory & Computation Panel. Considered proposal for ADAM support group.

27

Foundation stone of RGO's new building at Cambridge laid by Robert Jackson, Science Minister. Main relocation to RGO is due in early 1990

Dec 5

New microVAX II (RLSMV1) installed at RAL.

7

ADAM support group bid accepted by APSB.

22

New microVAX II installed at CAM

31

Bernard Payne ceased to be acting Site Manager at SOU.

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