Your recollection is different than mine, but is likely to be correct. It's been many years, but I seem to (vaguely) recall the G-15 had 12AT7 dual triodes. We had ours in a little 8X10 room and had a 3-ton air conditioner dedicated to the room to keep the room down to 90 degrees. a year ago I went to DC and went to the Museum of History and Technology. The computer section had a G-15 on display, along with PDP-15 and a Macintosh 512, all of which I worked on at one time or another.
"They that give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-1495 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company > ---------- > From: Gordon Bell > Reply To: VM/ESA and z/VM Discussions > Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 5:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: All Good Things > > Good luck in your retirement Gordon! I've been out about > 5 years now, and am having a ball. > > The Bendix G-15 was also the first "computer" I worked with. > IIRC the tubes were 6AL5 dual diodes and 6L6 beam power tubes, > and the caretakers of the beast had to run it with the > cabinet doors wide open, with fans blowing through it to keep it > cool. I thought there was some primative source translator > to help resolve real addresses, but memory fades. I think the only > program I wrote was for mean and standard deviation calculations. > > Well, stick around on the list. It's fun to follow where things > are heading. > > Gordon (Don) Bell, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
