Front Panel Update

tony duell ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Tue Jun 9 23:45:59 CDT 2015


> Interesting.  Varian is a microwave equipment company; I have one of their TWTs sitting on my H960 at home.  
> Vacuum equipment, I could believe that.  But yes, Varian made a 16 bit minicomputer; I had a handbook for it at 

My father was a physical chemist who did a lot of work with vacuum systems. He would swear by
Varian (and swear _at_ Vacuum Generators). I assume it was the same Varian company.

A number of scientific instrument companies made computers too, of course. The most obvious
being HP.

-tony


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