I will have to dig out our GE 400 op console and look -Ed# In a message dated 7/27/2017 11:47:07 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On the subject, I need someone with a better memory. > > Around 1973 or so, I visited a friend at the old GE Plant in Phoenix. > All Hoyt could talk about was GECOS, but he was gracious enough to give > me a cook's tour of the development area, including the water-cooled > something or the other, which was still in free-standing racks. The CE > console for that thing was impressive--several CRTs, a couple of Nixie > thermometer-type displays. > > At any rate, prowling around, he pointed out a few of the older GE > systems, apparently awaiting a journey to the scrapyard. One really > impressed me--the console had an analog meter in it calibrated in > "thousands of operations per second". I have never seen such a thing > since. > > Anyone remember what system this might have been? > > Gah. I saw a picture of one somewhere recently, but I can't remember where. -- Charles
