Originally Posted by Mooncrest
What is a Mediator suite ?
A suite of a couple of splittable sectors each with two 22" flat-tops with suspended Flight Progress Boards separated by a Chief Sector Controller's comms panel, two or three long-range verticals and Assistant Sector Controller Flight Progress Boards on the outside (hence the term 'Wing-Men'). Eash ASC was flanked by an Assistant position. Seating in total for 9 ATS staff (1 CSC, 4 SCs, 2 ASCs, 2 ATSAs) not counting U/Ts. Very cosy when fully staffed...halitosis or smoking not welcome. Result: bad backs, twisted necks, colds and flu, twisted ankles from enmeshed chair castors, red and green felt tip on starched white shirts...etc etc... Alzheimer's permits recall of ten suites in all: POL/IRS, DTY/LIC, TMA(N,) CLN E/W, BRS/STU, 20/23, TMA(S), DVR/LYD, SFD/WOR/HUR, plus a Spare Mediator Suite. They are probably all saucepans or exhaust pipes by now.
Another recollection. The original 1970/71 flat-tops weren't, they were domed and the shrimp boats from the shrimp-boat dispensers would sail downhill into the ashtrays. Alphanumeric 4096 code Mode A SSR arrived just in time for Mediator opening night 31 Jan '71...