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@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ College Belize Expedition, and in the 1980s we used Andy Waddington's <a href="/
5.13C</a>, a fortran programme on the IBM mainframe at the university (and, probably, at the UK Atomic Energy Establishment
at Windscale). The routines to produce <a href="/expofiles/documents/fortran-su-programs/SURVEY.SUPLOT.f">graphical output on
a pen-plotter</a> were ported to the University Computing Service by Philip Sargent in 1984. (Over Christmas 1983, the university mainframe had its <a href="http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5622/University-of-Cambridge-Computing-Service-November-1983-Newsletter-107/">RAM doubled: from 16 to 32 MB</a>.)
<p>1990 was the first year we had a computer on expo. Before that we had only programmable calculators. Unfortunately there were 3-inch and 5-inch floppy disc mismatches and it was an
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes">Acorn Archimedes</a> anyway [Which had an ARM chip, not an Intel one. Yes younglings, we had ARM chips in those days too.]. See
<a href="/years/1990/report.htm">the 1990 report</a>.
<h3>Initial cave data management</h3>
<p>Along with centrelines and sketches, descriptions of caves were also affected by improvements