We started Comsearch on a Pr1me 300 in 1977 and moved up to a 750 by the mid 80s before moving on to Unix boxes.. and yes, the computers rooms were freezing.
Sent from my iPad > On Oct 29, 2018, at 12:21 PM, Robert <[email protected]> wrote: > > We used the Prime computer systems, never had a head crash with more than > just a lot of substrate scraped off, but remember getting a lot of colds as a > result of computer rooms at 65 degrees then going outside into 85 degree > weather... > >> On 10/29/18 9:13 AM, Larry Smith wrote: >> Worked a lot with DEC RP-07 drives (washing machine). >> Believe they were seven platter, and when a head "crashed" >> it generally acted like pin-ball and took out all of them. >> The tops of ours were light smoke color so you could watch >> the "excitement" of all the heads and various parts bouncing >> around with little you could do about it until the drive stopped >> spinning (the top would not open, probably a good thing)... > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
