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



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