Regional Paper Offices
Equipment at Regional sites
Cairns Post
Cairns Post old editorial system supplied by System Intergators
Picture sending machine used by staff to transmit pictures.
"Excel printer" was used in the editorial offices to receive wire from AAP.
Sytin R decoder was used by the Cairns Post to receive pictures from AAP through the Satellite service.
The satellite dish was used by Cairns Post to receive the AAP services.
Toowoomba Chronical
Equipment room
Computer room showing the Atec mainframe system still in use by the paper today May 2002.
Newstream and Newstrack system in the corner of the computer room. Notice the new Compaq servers used by the advertising department
Newstream unit on the shelf, with a visual display device below monitoring the output from the Newstrack buffering unit to the mainframe.
Newstrack PC supplied to act as a buffer between the newstream unit and the papers editorial mainframe for the NXX wires.
Mr Barry Moore has been the newspaper production engineers for the last 20 years. Barry is here holding the BBC computer that was the main computer used by the paper.
