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From: wcs@ho95e.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart.<ho95c>)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Cray architecture
Message-ID: <2099@ho95e.ATT.COM>
Date: 4 Apr 88 03:59:15 GMT
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In article <1982@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> kolding@ji.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Eric Koldinger) writes:
:The newest computers are big boxes, the disk
:drives are all sealed and you can't even see the disk, and the latest
:tape drives from IBM are cartridge drives with no great big reels to watch.

The larger optical disk jukeboxes are fun to watch.
I recently took a tour of the main computer center at Lawrence Livermore
Labs.  The Cray-2 is small and cute, and you can watch the Freon bubble,
or go look at the humongous power/AC system.  But what's *physically*
impressive to watch is the robot-controlled tape-hanging system, which
is a 50-foot jukebox of hundreds of tape reels - stay out of the way of
the tape-grabbing arm.
-- 
#				Thanks;
# Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G218, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs
# So we got out our parsers and debuggers and lexical analyzers and various 
# implements of destruction and went off to clean up the tty driver...