17 Dec
2005
17 Dec
'05
4:29 p.m.
On Fri, December 16, 2005 12:55 am, Allison said:
didn't like the idea or could not support water
for the system. NY some
of the older buildings took near a year to get adaquate power for smaller
machines. Water, forget about that.
The naiive side of me decided that companies based in older buildings
wouldn't need the power of a VAX 9000, but I've only been a tourist in NYC
so I'm fully prepared to be scoffed at :)
It was a good machine that held up well in use. The
bulk of them
succumed when installed (phase rotation had the blowers backward!)
and the usual field circus tricks.
My contact had their uptime at 24 days max, but perhaps that was a UK bad
machine!
a mill. Field service offered them all sorts of
inducements during
the 80s to replace it. I believe they system cost over a half million
to replace with software and stuff tossed in. It was just too costly
to fix the PDP1 if it broke.
I'd love to know if that's still in use, they'd be surely in line for some
sort of award!
--
adrian/witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?