23 Jun
2015
23 Jun
'15
3:04 p.m.
On 2015-Jun-23, at 2:28 PM, william degnan wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Brent Hilpert
<hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
Certainly, it's an assumption that they're CPUs, but then where are the CPUs? They
could be behind the blank panels but it would also be a little odd to completely cover
them up like that (no apparent power/reset/boot/run switches/lights). Might be CPU on the
bottom portion of the front panels (row of 16/17) and comms as you suggest on the upper
portion.
On 2015-Jun-23, at 12:50 PM, COURYHOUSE at
aol.com wrote:
It could be a bunch of terminal multiplexers or communications controllers,
does not even have to be CPU's... hp drives yes...
...
OK another odd thing - note tapes but lack of tape drives.
If only we could see what was in the rest of the room!
I think those are all disk cartridges, rather than tapes.
I was trying to guess what the blurred manufacturer name on the racks
might be and find matching pics on the web but no luck so far.
Looks like one capital letter followed by a number of half-height letters.
I find it odd that the while the drives are mid-70s+, the processor panels
look like something from the late-60s or even earlier.