19 Mar
1997
19 Mar
'97
12:23 p.m.
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Carl R. Friend wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:55:54 -0700, Jim Strickland
spake thusly
unto us:
Hrumph! You have not seen a power meter REALLY spin until I hit the
switch on my Vax 11/780! Even the PDP-11/70 in the collection comes
in a poor second to that critter! ( ridiculous huge B^} )
-jim
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[...] sounds like an interesting collection...
but an expensive one
to power up.
I believe the largest amount of computer power running in the
house at once was the time when my wife had both PCs up and I had my
DECstation, VAXstation, and InterAct fired up at the same time. The
LAN took a beating that day.