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From: Mike <dogas(a)leading.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, 25 March 1999 5:13
Subject: Re: Museums
I would also imagine the museum brick and morter
will have to be
electronically shielded to allow things like trs-80 mod 1s to operate in a
commercial zone.
You're kidding, right? I can't believe even US silly rules are that silly.
Cheers
Geoff Roberts
Computer Systems Manager
Saint Mark's College
Port Pirie, South Australia.
Email: geoffrob(a)stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au
ICQ #: 1970476
Phone: 61-8-8633-8834
Mobile: 61-411-623-978
Fax: 61-8-8633-0104
Nope... Why do you think DEC stopped making the 11/70.
FCC Rules. They were so tight that DEC called back every 11/70 they could
pry out of field offices (replacing them with carved up 11/74's in some
places like my Princeton office) in order to meet Ma Bell's requirements
for 11/70's. (They were allowed to ship used refurbed stuff for another
six months or so after they had to stop making new ones -- unless they
wanted to spend $$$ to have the model retrofitted for the new emissions
specs and retested for RF leakage).
(They probably could've used VAX cabinets and could've done this -- but
they were interested in dropping the 11/70 by then because it probably
not cost effective to build and the 11/73 was coming...)
Anyone out on the list have the truth? The above was the Field Service
guestimate after we pulled the 11/70's from Princeton in favor of
an 11/74 piece and a couple of replacement Vaxes for DEC's regional
data center...
Bill
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