18-05-2013, 11:46 AM
As Bulldog would say, beautiful. The only computer with seats built in!
They made them that odd shape so as to get the interconnections as short as possible between "high speed" parts, liquid cooled too from memory.
I would dearly love to own a real Cray XMP, or YMP!
I have 2 minicomputers, a Honeywell Bull Mini 6, about the size of a small fridge lying on its side, and a Control Data one about the size of a standard PC laying on its side, but it weighs like 10 tons, I think there might be some lead or depleted uranium inside it somewhere!
I very nearly brought home an ICL (made in England) ICL was the pommie equivalent to IBM from the USA, mainframe, complete with those neat "Lost in Space" style tape units, printers and Hard Disk units. I could have got it for nothing, in fact I was going to be paid to remove it!
It was back in the dark ages when the Albert Shire Council was still around and I had a job that involved working with a lot of their gear.
Mrs Chopper got wind of it and decided that having the entire top floor of our humble home occupied by a very large, hot and power hungry computer wasn't a nice idea, oh well
My Honeywell will have to do for now, it worked the last time I tried it, it has a key start on the front and 2 "Lark" drives. It takes about 10 to 15 minutes to start up!
I have been slowly but surely digging my way through the junk in the Skunkworks and soon Ill fire up the old tart and see what happens.
I just realised that I really am quite the nerd...
They made them that odd shape so as to get the interconnections as short as possible between "high speed" parts, liquid cooled too from memory.
I would dearly love to own a real Cray XMP, or YMP!
I have 2 minicomputers, a Honeywell Bull Mini 6, about the size of a small fridge lying on its side, and a Control Data one about the size of a standard PC laying on its side, but it weighs like 10 tons, I think there might be some lead or depleted uranium inside it somewhere!
I very nearly brought home an ICL (made in England) ICL was the pommie equivalent to IBM from the USA, mainframe, complete with those neat "Lost in Space" style tape units, printers and Hard Disk units. I could have got it for nothing, in fact I was going to be paid to remove it!
It was back in the dark ages when the Albert Shire Council was still around and I had a job that involved working with a lot of their gear.
Mrs Chopper got wind of it and decided that having the entire top floor of our humble home occupied by a very large, hot and power hungry computer wasn't a nice idea, oh well
My Honeywell will have to do for now, it worked the last time I tried it, it has a key start on the front and 2 "Lark" drives. It takes about 10 to 15 minutes to start up!
I have been slowly but surely digging my way through the junk in the Skunkworks and soon Ill fire up the old tart and see what happens.
I just realised that I really am quite the nerd...
"If a clutered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign." Albert Einstein
Well, I have the cluttered desk, I guess that's a start!
Well, I have the cluttered desk, I guess that's a start!