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Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
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Date: Sat, 15-Mar-86 03:01:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 15 03:01:00 1986
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Organization: Commodore Engineering, West Chester, PA
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> I believe it. Our Perkin-Elmer (oops, Concurrent) CE's have a habit of
> collecting equipment that otherwise would have been thrown out as junk.
> 
> I wonder what the garage of an IBM 370 CE looks like :-)
> 
> 		John Ruschmeyer

Oh well...

Not too many years ago I helped a guy Ken ? move his data center from one
place to another in North Jersey.  He was an ex-Burroughs CE who liked the
machines he worked on and bought one from one of his sites when they wanted
to get rid of it.

The system?  A Burroughs 250 - about 8 bays of vacum tubes with a monster
motor generator for power supply.  He reassembled the system at the new
site and had it working about a week later.  He later asked one of my friends
about the possibility of replacing the core memory with MOS chips, since the
core driver tubes consumed so much power.

I hope he replaced the system with a mini, but lost touch a while back.

SORRY -- THIS IS A TRUE STORY!!!
-- 
George Robbins - now working with,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbm!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbm!grr@seismo.css.GOV
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)