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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [On Behalf Of Shane
>
> 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 ...
Ahh, the things today's youth are not taught, or allowed to discover....
:-)
-jc-
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