At 12:22 PM 02-02-99 -0500, allisonp(a)world.std.com wrote: Ah, the old motor/generator that brings back memories... I wouldn't want to think about the number of batteries required to keep a KI-10 running (you'd need a fair few just to keep the lights running :-) and then there's the disks too. My computer room was specially built to house a DECsystem-10. It's long gone, but the room is full of modern systems (about 60 of them) and we draw less power (and generate far less heat) than the old -10 ever did... Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999 La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"

I wrote: Tony replied: No, it was optional on most DEC minicomputers. To the best of my knowledge, the KL10 was the first machine from DEC for which this feature was standard rather than optional.