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From: sampson@killer.UUCP (Steve Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: IBM mainframe for sale (Really 400/416 Hz power for Crays)
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Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 04:52:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  8 04:52:00 1987
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Summary: 400 Hz Works good on airplanes


I may have missed someone mentioning this, but 400 Hz may have been selected
to allow it to work with aircraft and ship generators.  I can think of many
aircraft in the inventory that could use the computing power (military).