16 Mar
2023
16 Mar
'23
7:38 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 5:05 PM Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
This has been around the block:
You can lose a screw in a micro.
You can lose a screwdriver in a mini.
You can get lost in a mainframe.
We had an Amdahl in the middle of a multi-thousand-square-foot
computer room (one of several) at work 25 years ago. I do not
know/remember the model number but it was made of up several cabinets
not in a line. It had such a convoluted layout that you could
literally stand in the "middle" of it and not see outside. If you
stood in exactly the right spot, the blank panels lined up and made
the visual appearance of a box with no exits.
You _could_ get lost in that one, as long as you didn't take half a step away.
-ethan