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Re: 360/85

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Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> writes:
> Well, I'm not sure it was a *LOT* more space.  The /85 was also the FIRST 
> indirectly water-cooled machine IBM made.  There could have been a lot of 
> conservative design in that to make sure they didn't have a thermal 
> catastrophe, and then later decided they could safely increase density.

There was 370/165 that had thermal problem .... turns out that they
didn't have flow sensor on the external water ... by the time thermal
sensor started to show a rise ... it was too late to prevent meltdown.
After that, they added flow sensor to the external water.

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360/85 Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2016-01-19 23:51 -0600
  Re: 360/85 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-01-20 03:13 -0800
    Re: 360/85 Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2016-01-20 12:09 -0600
      Re: 360/85 Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-01-20 10:26 -0800
      Re: 360/85 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-01-20 10:40 -0800
        Re: 360/85 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-01-20 19:43 +0000
        Re: 360/85 Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> - 2016-01-20 13:55 -0600

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