Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.2602:f977:0:1::5!not-for-mail From: Rich Alderson Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: byte me, The joy of FORTRAN Date: 27 Feb 2025 19:33:00 -0500 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 14 Sender: alderson+news@panix5.panix.com Message-ID: References: <1418991943.762291516.721625.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="2602:f977:0:1::5"; logging-data="10072"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 22.3 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:230160 comp.os.linux.misc:65811 c186282 writes: > LONG back I was in a govt data-center. They had some kind of, I'm pretty > sure, early DEC. The "CPU" was a kinda cubic-meter plastic box of DISCRETE > TRANSISTORS. DEC always packaged things in metal until very late in the game, so whatever you saw it wasn't a DEC product. -- Rich Alderson news@alderson.users.panix.com Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur, omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus. --Galen