8 Nov
2020
8 Nov
'20
1:34 p.m.
Al said
On 11/6/20 12:11 PM, Tom Uban via cctalk wrote:
The ad must have worked. Although our uni was the first in Australia to provide
11/780's
for teaching and research, in later years third year comp sci was moved to a new Gould
PN6080, because they got a good deal. Everyone just called it "the Gould".
It's so hard to find a picture of this machine, a while ago I found an eBay ad for
the
PowerNode series which was about all I have.
Steve.
The ECL based logic was named
"firebreather" for a reason. They were the
fastest thing at the time.
If you look at the Gould advertising at the time, it was a picture of a
fire-breathing dragon toasting a DEC salesman running away.