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| From | Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: PDP-8 advertising |
| Date | 2016-06-17 08:31 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <dshqq8FkqbiU70@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 08:27:21 +0000, Bob Eager wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 07:37:29 +0000, Questor wrote: > >> On 16 Jun 2016 12:30:47 GMT, jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote: >>>PDPs were built so they could work in dirty rooms. It wasn't until >>>1973 or 1974 when internal DEC PDP-10 machine rooms started to get >>>"clean". >> >> PDP-11s have famously worked in some very dirty locations. PDP-10s... >> not so much. Although it was more important that they were cool. >> >> One day I get a call from one of the operators -- our 1077 (dual KI-10) >> is issuing a lot of strange error messages on the console. I head to >> the machine room to investigate. I sat down at the console DECwriter >> and perused the output. I don't remember the messages, but I had never >> seen anything like them. >> It's as if the machine had forgotten how to do arithmetic. While I'm >> wondering what the hell is going on, I turn my head and glance at a >> small circular thermometer near the the CPU cabinet. It reads 75 >> degrees! Problem solved. >> I tell the operator to initiate a shutdown and call maintenance to fix >> the air conditioning. > > I have an 11/03 (well, it has an 11/23 CPU board in it) that came out of > a feed mill in Norfolk, UK. It had been cleaned up a bit by the time I > got it. > > Apparently it had to be carried down an external staircase to get it > out. > I wonder if that's how it got in... Forgot the link... https://goo.gl/maps/NYJ8XSziJBU2 -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
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