19 Jun
1997
19 Jun
'97
12:52 p.m.
I like my real PDP better than the emulated one. The real one has one
feature that E11, and Supnik 2.2, and all the rest can NEVER have that
annoys my family to no end - THE EAR-SPLITTING NOISE! :) It drives them
Nuts, and I can't get enough of it! There's nothing like powering up the
11/23 and hearing that "Bwaaaaa!" as it all spins up - then it becomes a
Hmmm... Try an 11/45 + 2 expansion boxes + 8 demountable drives + PERQ1 as
a terminal for an ear-splitting noise. There must be at least 30 fans in
that system, probably more :-)
And then there's the waste heat. A few years ago we had a 'heat wave'. The
temperatures were well above the maximum specified in the DEC manuals. The
11/45 carried on running as if nothing was wrong, but alas I didn't....
--
-tony
ard12(a)eng.cam.ac.uk
The gates in my computer are AND,OR and NOT, not Bill