4 Dec
2006
4 Dec
'06
1:01 a.m.
Tore, thanks for your extensive reply about Norsk Data and the story about the
CERN machines. I like hearing about the other minicomputers/companies - the
'rest of the world' - in addition to DEC and HP all the time.
Tore Sinding Bekkedal wrote:
Brent Hilpert wrote:
I was actually working in another area of the site (DD) and saw that control room
just once - I don't remember what was outside it. A co-worker took me through
to show me an earlier project she had been working on, which involved programming
the ND machines.
Yes, indeed(!), they were of the orange generation: even in the dim lighting and
off to one side, the bank of them rather determined the colour scheme for the
room. ('SCREAMING ORANGE' as you said in an earlier message. Orange panels with
aluminum trim, IIRC.)
They were from the 70's after all: the era of DEC purple, kitchen appliances
in harvest-gold and avocado-green (for North Americans), and too many other
design crimes. (Then again, this blue iMac in front of me may look horribly
kitschy/garrish in another 20 years.)
I recall seeing a bank of (some model) in the
beam-control room at CERN, in 1985,
I think I have may have a picture of that room somewhere in a marketing
brochure. Was there a voltage control console with a graphics CRT
outside of the room? They were the orange generation of machines, right?
(NORD-10, NORD-50, NORD-10/S)