> Interesting. Varian is a microwave equipment company; I have one of their > TWTs sitting on my H960 at home. > Vacuum equipment, I could believe that. But yes, Varian made a 16 bit > minicomputer; I had a handbook for it at
My father was a physical chemist who did a lot of work with vacuum systems. He would swear by Varian (and swear _at_ Vacuum Generators). I assume it was the same Varian company. A number of scientific instrument companies made computers too, of course. The most obvious being HP. -tony
