diff --git a/handbook/website-history.html b/handbook/website-history.html index 987808e0d..c4c66b442 100644 --- a/handbook/website-history.html +++ b/handbook/website-history.html @@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ intelligent loop closure processing. Julian Todd's Java program "Tunnel" facilit production of attractive, computerized passage sketches from Survex centerline data and scanned hand-drawn notes. A <a href="survexhistory96.htm">history of survex</a> article covering the period 1988-1996 was published in Cambridge Underground 1996. +<p>Before Survex, <a href="../years/1990/svy2.htm">in 1990 we used Sean Kelly's Surveyor '88</a>, written for the Queen Mary +College Belize Expedition, and in the 1980s we used Andy Waddington's <a href="/expofiles/documents/fortran-su-programs">SU +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>.) <h3>Initial cave data management</h3> <p>Along with centrelines and sketches, descriptions of caves were also affected by improvements