28 Oct
2004
28 Oct
'04
1:47 p.m.
I believe tht the reliability problem with the 701
was not hard tube failures, but transient errors
in the Williams tube memories. This problem was
corrected when IBM transitioned to core memory.
Yes, you are correct - Williams Tube sucked.
Still, the myth of non-reliability of tube machines is still around.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org