On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 21:38 -0800, Rafael Skodlar wrote: > No modern PC with water cooling, tons of LEDs, or shiny fans look as > good as PDP-8 or PDP-11/44 front panels. You could tell what system was > doing just by looking at LEDs.
I know what you mean, I started my computer career in 1981 working on these and I've always found PCs rather bland in comparison: http://users.monash.edu.au/~ralphk/burroughs.html Scroll down until you get to "The awesome backplane. Source of many intermittent faults and surely the last word in heroic complexity." I learned a lot working on these... Thanks, Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
