TRS-80 Model 1 (was: Arty computers (was: Re: PDP-11/70 in Yates Center, KS)

About all I can remember on its physical image (and even this may be flawed) was that the window behind which the "solid state memory" resided was on the lower right perhaps in the last rack to the right. I vaguely remember that there were at least 3 and possibly many many more racks. There were also at least four full sized racks that contained Ampex tape decks that were very finicky and often had to be restarted after they would loose their tension. There were miles and miles of wiring under the floor of the room. There was also a punched card reader added toward the end of my tenure with the machine that greatly improved the programming ease However, I would think that it is unlikely I would have forgotten the phrase, "seven oh seventy" Its a catchy phrase and has stuck with me for almost fifty years. We didn't call it the "seventy seventy" or any other sequence of words, just the "Seven Oh Seventy". However, what it looked like has pretty much been erased and blended with the many other computers of similar size that I worked on. I do remember back in the early ninety's seeing a book on Cold War espionage that had an article on it and referenced several aspects of it that I remembered at the time. Yes it was a BIG machine by todays standards and we had 30 tons of air conditioning to keep the room cool because of all the tubes. If it had been solid state, all that air conditioning would not have been needed. On 2/3/07, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote: -- Jim Isbell "If you are not living on the edge, well then, you are just taking up too much space."