Feeling real grumpy !
Tim
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Tue Nov 21 03:34:58 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 10:49 -0800, George Arseneault wrote:
> Actually 'real' debugging was when they ran distilled
> water over the circuits to remove the dead bugs. (Back
> when computers took up their own building)
Hmm, just water?
It's years since I've actually seen a real mainframe, though this was a
transistorised one. Great big metal cabinets, where you opened up the
doors to a rat's nest of wire-wrap, and it used water-cooling through
the doors as well as the rest of the cabinet.
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(Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.)
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