vintage computers in active use

[Diane Bruce]

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 03:31:42PM -0300, Paul Berger wrote:
> On 2016-05-26 2:32 PM, Diane Bruce wrote:
...
> >
> > http://www.iaea.org/inis/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/01/000/1000086.pdf
> >
> >
> Yeah the Bruce plant used to run on PDP-8s, a friend of mine worked 
> there on a work term in University, he told me they had a garage full of 
> PDP-8s for spares.  I would imagine when Bruce was refurbished they 
> where replaced with something more modern.  The Pickering plant was run 
> by IBM 1800 as where some of the coal fired plants.

Wow! Thanks! I always wondered why Ontario Hydro wanted Craig's PDP-8's ;)

> 
> Paul.
> 

Diane
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