10 Jun
2015
10 Jun
'15
12:15 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of tony
duell
Sent: 10 June 2015 05:46
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: RE: Front Panel Update
> Interesting. Varian is a microwave equipment company; I have one of
their
TWTs sitting on my H960 at home.
systems.
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 He would swear by Varian (and swear _at_ Vacuum
Generators). I assume it
was the same Varian company.
I once had a Varian computer, well the local computer club had a Varian. I
can't remember what happened to it.
A friend used to work for them mostly I think on gas chromatographs...
A number of scientific instrument companies made
computers too, of
course. The most obvious being HP.
-tony
Dave