27 Sep
2007
27 Sep
'07
1:14 p.m.
On Thursday 27 September 2007 14:54, Brent Hilpert wrote:
I recall seeing one of these in the
'cathedral'* at CERN around 1985. IIRC,
one could look in the end of the unit and see what was like a long corridor
with the honeycomb compartments filling both sides of the corridor and the
robot mechanism in the middle (although I don't think I actually saw it
move).
(* The cathedral was the colloquial name of the main machine room for the
computing division at CERN: an acre of raised floor filled with machines
and open for several stories high (to assist with cooling I expect). Was
quite impressive to walk into.)
Hm, I wonder if there's any connection between that and ESR's use of that
term? :-)
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