Al said > On 11/6/20 12:11 PM, Tom Uban via cctalk wrote: >> The ECL based logic was named "firebreather" for a reason. They were the >> fastest thing at the time. > > If you look at the Gould advertising at the time, it was a picture of a > fire-breathing dragon toasting a DEC salesman running away.
The ad must have worked. Although our uni was the first in Australia to provide 11/780's for teaching and research, in later years third year comp sci was moved to a new Gould PN6080, because they got a good deal. Everyone just called it "the Gould". It's so hard to find a picture of this machine, a while ago I found an eBay ad for the PowerNode series which was about all I have. Steve.
