Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

[Deryk Barker]

Thus spake Jim Hodgers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
[...]
> scanning of the northern path for missiles). After finally giving them a
> working equivalent af a 12AX7 I understand they were able to turn off all
> but one of the air conditioning units on the roof because a Fettron had no
> filament to heat. Turned out this was cheaper than going to a newer
> computer and writing an all new program!

In the mid 70s the US government implemented their new World-Wide
Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS, or 'wimmicks') on
Honeywell 6000 series mainframes. I was told that the one system was
cooled using water from an ornamental lake (is there one near the
Pentagon itself?). Came winter and the lake froze; the system went
down. 

Fortunately the Russians knew nothing of this...

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