On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 17:16 -0500, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > there is folklore in the late 60s, about the cdc 6600 at berkeley having > a thermal problem a little after 10am tuesday mornings (???) and > shutting down.... The combination was enough to > drop water pressue to datacenter cooling.
Our 6400 at Uni was run for a while with (garden) hoses strung out the window to taps outside ... So they must have been reasonably resilient. However it did "fall over" with monotonous regularity just prior to assignment deadline. Turned out not to be load related as initially thought (for which we were given extension to complete). We had quite a few Engineering students taking compsci who were more interested in beer than assignments. Oscillators (apparently) started being found next to the computer room coincidentally with the 6400 misfiring. After that we were no longer allowed the extension to complete, and the card (sorry, assignment) room got closed. Gah - life was hard being an undergrad ... Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
