9 Jun
2015
9 Jun
'15
9:45 p.m.
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