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Subject: MassComp Machines... ( MC 500 )
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Date: Mon, 3-Oct-83 00:17:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  3 00:17:00 1983
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From:  Yekta Gursel <YEKTA@mit-mc>


First, let's get the record straight:  I do NOT work for Masscomp.  I do work
in Caltech's Gravitational Physics Laboratory. Here we go:

About a year ago, we decided that we need a computer to control the
Gravitational Wave Experiment.  Our requirement was that the machine should be
able to keep up with 40000 data points per second ( 16 bits per data point ), 
and at the same time , it should be able to perform data analysis.  ( like
calculating Fast Fourier Transforms, etc... )  We invited a whole bunch of
people from several companies.  WE had a brochure from a then-unknown company
called Masscomp describing a machine which might do the job. So, we called them
as well.  After a series of meetings, it became very clear to me that this 
machine ( MC-500 ) by masscomp is a very